Resources for healthcare research--both human and monetary--are finite. Competition for these resources is fierce. Bench scientists compete with clinicians; trials of potentially therapeutic drugs, surgical treatments, or genetic and immune modulation compete with outcomes trials; evidence-based protocols compete with everyone (and everything) else. How then, as neuroscience nurses, do we play a role in assuring that these resources are best used for our patients and their unique needs and are "spent" wisely?
Although the private sector and charitable, nonprofit organizations support a great deal of research in the neurosciences, the U.S. government, under the aegis of the ...