Foundation Research
AONL Foundation Longitudinal Research Plan
Research Mission
Influencing innovation through nursing leadership research ultimately benefiting all health care constituents—from patients and families, to communities, to nursing and health care teams.
Guiding Priorities
Optimizing Leadership Effectiveness
Developing and Managing a Nursing Workforce to Meet Current and Future Health Care Needs
Healthy Work and Practice Environments for Nurse Leaders
Healthy Work and Practice Environments for Direct Care Nurses
Nurse Leaders Development and Essential Competencies
Achieving Equity in Health Care
Nurses' Health, Well-being, Resiliency/Safety in the Workplace
Improving the Health Care Experience
Quantification of Nursing's Value Across the Health Care Delivery System
The AONL Foundation adopted the findings from Setting the Research Agenda for Nursing Administration and Leadership Science: A Delphi Study, a national collaboration between the AONL Foundation and the Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN).
Research Plan for the Next 2-3 years
Leader Workforce Logistics, Well-Being
Understanding Chief Nursing Officer Turnover
Leader Compensation
Leader Competencies
Focus on Nurse Manager/front-line nurse leader: recognition, job design, diversity
Residency Fidelity
Well-being and resiliency
Leader's Experiences with environment, Leadership influence over environment, Leader's role in emerging well-being
Leadership influence over environment
Leaders' environment
Leader's role in emerging well-being
Focus on Nurse Manager/front-line nurse leader: recognition, job design, diversity
Residency Fidelity
Well-being and resiliency
Nursing and Nursing Leadership in population health models
Nursing and Nursing Leadership in equity work
Overarching Assumptions
This is about LEADERSHIP.
Include non-nursing research work
as part of the literature review and write-up.
Use Shillam and Clipper
to capture demographics and report equity.
Use Vahey and Havens
for longitudinal studies to capture demographics and report equity.
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Previously Funded Research
Corporate and Organization Partners in Research
Research Priorities Background
Support Nursing Leadership Research