Nursing Research
Research at the UVA School of Nursing is conducted by teams, at centers and by individual faculty and students. Specialty areas include alternative and complementary therapies, rural health, mental health, nursing history, oncology, aging, domestic violence among other topics. In addition to federal grants, funding is provided by private foundations and intramural grants to stimulate creative projects. Opportunities are often created for industrious students—from our wealth of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs—interested in conducting their own original research projects.
The School of Nursing’s strong research mission includes a foundation based on collaboration to produce new knowledge. From developing new understandings of human behavior to new models for care delivery, our research teams are energetic, focused, and growing.
- The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry – dedicated to the preservation and study of the history of nursing and health care
- Office for Nursing Research – facilitates the development of research activities at the School
- Center for the Study of Complementary & Alternative Therapies – an NIH-funded interdisciplinary center that aims to design, validate, and implement research in complementary and alternative medicine
- Rural Health Care Research – addressing the health care needs of the impoverished, of racial and ethnic minorities and the elderly living in rural areas
- Rural Mental Health Research – improving the availability and quality of mental health care for rural, impoverished, minority individuals
Research Resources
- Select research studies
- Faculty research interests
- Available funding
- Student resources
- Research opportunities around UVA
Selected Center Links
- CNHI collections
- SRMHRC shortages research
- Current studies at CSCAT
- Rural Health Care Research Center - community outreach
Selected Recently Received Grants
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Changing Narratives of Depression in Rural Women of the South
This 3-year, exploratory, Stage I behavioral treatment research study will establish digital story as a means of promoting therapeutic change among low-income rural women with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Primary Investigator Emily Hauenstein, Phd, RN, LCP, funded by the NIH - Virginia Geriatric Education Center
Awarded in August 2010 to a consortium of University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Eastern Virginia Medical School researchers with an emphasis on inter-professional education in geriatrics, and including faculty development, curriculum development, clinical training of students and continuing professional education.
Primary Investigator at UVA Kathy Fletcher, DNP, RN, GNP-BC, FAAN, funded by HRSA - Clinical Nurse Leader Development at the University of Virginia
This program will provide scholarships for students traditionally underrepresented in the field of nursing and strives to prepare culturally competent leaders in the School of Nursing’s accelerated Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master’s nursing program.
Primary Investigator Kathryn Reid, PhD, RN, CNL, FNP-BC, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
