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Research Internship Mentor Supervision Record Form Dec 2023

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The NIHR Nursing and Midwifery Incubator

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The NIHR Nursing and Midwifery Incubator

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The NIHR Incubators is a virtual service which supports capacity building and multidisciplinary career development in targeted areas. It will help nurses and midwives to utilise a single online platform as a repository for information and resources, a noticeboard for developments and opportunities, and a forum for discussion and collaboration.

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Joining this course was very daunting. I want to know more about becoming a research nurse but was unsure where to start. Introduction with ACORN made me felt that there are people who can actually help me take the first step. The first classroom session made me realised a bigger picture and the career progression in research. I motivated me to be more involved in research and listed some research questions and observation in our department. I started talking to my colleagues about their research questions in our department and they are happy to support me throughout my internship.

Mid-December, I had a chance to speak to my mentor and co-mentor. Verna, my main mentor, was very knowledgeable and experienced about the field in research. I was advised to read more about research Ethics application and The CNO for England’s strategic plan for research. I have booked a steering group meetings and research seminars. All to get started with my research journey.

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The main challenge for research is the perspective of others that it is more academic than accessible. There is a huge barrier that keeps people from involving themselves in research. The main goal is to create a positive impact in the health service through research involvement and evidence-based practice.

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Making research matter – The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research 

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Making research matter – The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research 

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The NHS CNO has 5 strategic focus.

1. Aligning nurse-led research with public need

-Quality nurse-led research focuses on the issues most important to those who use, work in and manage health and care services, and succeeds in realising impact.

2. Releasing nurses’ research potential

-To empower nurses to lead, use, deliver and participate in research as part of their job. Finding ways to boost the nursing voice, profile and involvement in decision making in forums related to research locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

3. Building the best research system

-Aim is to make England the best place for nurses to lead, deliver and get involved in cutting-edge research. Support delivery of the NIHR Senior Research Leader: Nursing and Midwifery programme by offering regional and national internship opportunities.

4. Developing future nurse leaders of research

-The vision is to offer rewarding opportunities and sustainable careers that support growth in the number and diversity of nurse leaders of research.

5. Digitally enabled nurse-led research

-Facilitate the development of a robust data architecture to underpin research to make the best use of data from digital technologies, inform care delivery and help manage the health of populations.

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research – full version.

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research – executive summary.

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Department of Health and Social Care-sets the overall strategy, funds and oversees the health and social care system with, and through, its 28 agencies and public bodies.

It funds clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and is responsible for ensuring they commission services for their local population effectively.

National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)- it funds health, public health and social care research to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research.

Health Research Authority (HRA)- it provides a unified national system for the governance of health research. The organization ensures ethical research review, promotes transparency, oversees committees, coordinates regulatory practice, and provides independent recommendations on processing patient information for both research and non-research projects.

NIHR Clinical Research Networks (CRN)- encourages participation in high-quality research, advancing knowledge and improving care through 30 specialty therapy areas and 15 Local Clinical Research Networks. From April 2024, the CRN will transition to a new organisation, the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN).

NIHR Research Support Service-offers confidential advice for funding applications, including clinical, applied health, and social care research, to all researchers in England and non-NIHR funders. It replaces the NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) and support funding for Clinical Trials Units.

NIHR PPI (Patient and Public Involvement)-NIHR wants patients, carers, members of the public and communities to be involved right across health and care research. NIHR defines public involvement in research as research being carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public rather than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them.

UK Standards for Public Involvement-offers clear guidelines for effective public engagement, promoting behaviors like flexibility, sharing, learning, and respect. Success is not about meeting all standards, but continuous improvement experienced by all involved. Developed over three years by a UK-wide partnership, the standards are a description of what good public involvement looks like and encourage approaches and behaviours that are the hallmark of good public involvement such as flexibility, sharing and learning and respect for each other.

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Before starting a research project, approvals from people inside and outside of your organization may be required. Approval for research in the NHS may need to be obtained from the Health Research Authority (HRA) or the local Research and Development Department. Research ethics approval may also be required to ensure safety and protect the integrity of the research. The regulation of research activity ensures safety and protection of the researcher, researcher(s), and associated organizations.

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Cancer and Surgery Nursing Research and Innovation Group meeting

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Cancer and Surgery Nursing Research and Innovation Group meeting

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Clinical academic research framework- evidence based tool

Research impact tool- to monitor, evaluate, improve services. How to collect for research. research activity in the clinical group.

nursing research get unseen. Research impact tool will measure the activity.

Patient experience:

PALS

letters of complaints

mystery shopper

3 scenarios- wayfinding in a busy area, reception desk, clinical waiting area observation

survey

patient user

National patient survey programme-CQC and NHS England

track performance overtiem

compare our performance with local regional and national peers

inform local targets and priorities for improvement

analysus by key factors

Friends and family test

measure overall expreience

snapshots and early warning indicator

collect feedback

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Published: 18 December 2019

Version: 1.0 - December 2019

Resources for PPI

Standards for Public Involvement

The UK Standards for Public Involvement in Research will help guide you to improve the quality and consistency of the public involvement in your research.

Guidance for researchers on PPI
NIHR has developed guidance for researchers on how patients and the public can be involved.
Payment and recognition for PPI
NIHR also provide guidance on reward and payment for involvement.
Co-production
Also you can find NIHR guidance on co-producing a research project.
Providing feedback to public contributors

Useful, practical and evidence-based guidance is available on providing effective two-way feedback between researchers and public contributors.

Online Public Reviewing Course

You may find the online interactive course for patient/public reviewers useful when considering how to design the PPI in your project. It will describe how patient and public reviewers and public committee members assess research plans.

Resources for evaluating the impact and reporting of PPI

In Stage 2 applications, you will be asked to describe how you will record and evaluate the impact PPI has on the research. The level of evaluation should be proportionate to the level and complexity of the proposed PPI activities. The following resources provide different frameworks for assessing impact and reporting PPI:

Evaluating public involvement in research
Guidance on evaluating PPI in research.
Assessing impact of PPI in research

The Public Involvement Impact Assessment Framework (PiiAF) has been produced to help researchers assess the impacts of involving public members in their research.

Reporting of PPI

GRIPP2 reporting checklists (tools to improve reporting of PPI in research).

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PPI (Patient and Public Involvement) resources for applicants to NIHR research programmes

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A list of available PPI resources for applicants to NIHR research programmes. These resources can be accessed by applicants to support the design of PPI in their research, as well as their PPI reporting.

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UKRI’s equality, diversity and inclusion strategy: research and innovation by everyone, for everyone

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Research and innovation create and advance knowledge and develop technologies that have the potential to transform our society. They address national and global challenges and enrich lives, delivering economic growth, and social, environmental and cultural benefits.

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The NHSE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (PCAF) supports health and social care practitioners (excluding doctors and dentists) to develop a competitive doctoral fellowship application.

The award funds a bespoke training and development programme and salary costs for the time undertaking this training. It is open to early career researchers committed to a practitioner academic career.

This one hour webinar will provide advice and support to help you develop a competitive PCAF application.

The webinar will be hosted by Louise Hawkyard, PCAF Senior Programme Manager and will:

provide an overview of the scheme

explain what the Selection Committee assesses in an application

offer tips for putting your application together

You will also have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the webinar.

This webinar may also be of interest to managers or supervisors of individuals who are interested in applying for a PCAF.
Register for the webinar.

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Webinar: Learn more about the Pre-doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (PCAF)

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Learn more about the Pre-doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (PCAF)

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Bowling, A. (2014). Research methods in health: investigating health and health services. McGraw-hill education (UK).

McClean, S., Bray, I., Bray, I., de Viggiani, N., Bird, E., & Pilkington, P. (2019). Research methods for public health. Sage.

Tilly, L. (Ed.). (2021). Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context: Applying Research to Practice. Routledge.

Moule, P. (2020). Making sense of research in nursing, health and social care. Sage.

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Research CIRSE research agenda

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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowships are designed to support people who are looking to start or advance a career in health and social care research methodology, specifically in one of the following areas:

medical statistics

health economics

clinical trial design

operational research

modelling

bioinformatics

qualitative research

mixed methods

epidemiology

Applicants without a Masters degree should use the Fellowship to undertake a Masters degree in one of the areas listed. Those already holding a relevant masters degree (or currently completing one) should use the Fellowship to gain additional support and training to advance to the next level of their career. The Fellowship can be undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis.

Are you eligible?

To be eligible for a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship you must:

have completed a relevant first degree.

have a proposed host who is an HEI, NHS body, or other provider of health and/or care services

be proposing to develop a career as a methodologist in one of the areas listed above.

Applications open annually in late January/February to start from September the same year to March the following year. Exact dates are available close to the time of opening.
Check funding opportunities for details of latest funding rounds.
Please note, this Fellowship is not open to clinical applicants looking to undertake training in research methods. Clinical applicants looking to develop a career as a clinical academic should consider schemes from the relevant clinical academic programmes provided by NIHR.

Useful resources for applicants

Doctoral Fellowship

The NIHR Doctoral Fellowship is a three year full-time award that supports individuals to undertake a PhD in applied health or social care research. This fellowship may also be taken up on a part-time basis of between 50% and 100% whole time equivalent (WTE).

Clinical applicants are able to include up to 20% clinical time as part of the fellowship, to ensure the maintenance of their clinical competence whilst undertaking the fellowship.

Are you eligible?

To be eligible for an NIHR Doctoral Fellowship you must:

Have completed any relevant pre-registration training (for clinical academic applicants)

Have completed a first degree (for non-clinical applicants)

Have a proposed host who is an HEI, NHS body, or other provider of health and/or care services.

Be intending to register for and complete a PhD

Where already registered for a PhD (or MPhil with transfer to PhD), you should not have been registered for more than 12 months at 100% WTE by the time the award starts.

Full details of the latest funding rounds are available in funding opportunities.
Doctoral Timetable

Partnership Fellowships

The NIHR has partnered with a number of charitable organisations to offer jointly funded NIHR Charity Partnership Fellowships and with Pfizer to offer an NIHR Industry Partnership Fellowship. Details are available for the latest Fellowship Round in Funding Opportunities.

Jointly funded Partnership Fellowships enable researchers to:

Maintain and build a relationship with both the NIHR and a partner organisation

Engage with and receive valuable input from patient groups, making the most of the public and patient engagement/involvement opportunities available

Receive greater research exposure through a variety of media and communication channels.

Please refer to the Guidance Notes for further details regarding the specific eligibility criteria for each partner (in addition to the standard eligibility criteria), the level of award available and the contact details for the relevant partner.

We encourage all applicants interested in applying for a jointly funded Partnership Fellowship to contact the relevant partner to discuss their research area of interest before they apply.

Please note, all other queries about the application process should be directed to the NIHR Academy.

Useful resources for applicants

Advanced Fellowship

The Advanced Fellowship is for those at a post-doctoral level and can be utilised at several specific points of a researcher's career development.

The fellowship is between 2 and 5 years and can be completed on a full-time or part-time basis - between 50% and 100% whole time equivalent (WTE).

Advanced Fellowships will be available with a 'clinical academic' option, whereby clinical applicants will have the option to request up to 40% of their time be dedicated to clinical service/development which would be covered by the award.

When should you apply?

The NIHR Advanced Fellowship is aimed at individuals at various points of their career. You may have:

Recently completed or be about to be awarded a PhD, but haven't yet established yourself as an independent researcher

Established yourself as an independent researcher or you are in the process of doing so, but are not yet recognised as an international leader in your field

Transitioned into applied health research or social care research from a basic science background or re-established your research career following a significant career break.

In addition, you may use the Advanced Fellowship to undertake innovative knowledge mobilisation (to support the more effective use of research knowledge), whilst simultaneously researching implementation processes and impacts.

If you are unsure about your eligibility for the Advanced Fellowship, as related to your career stage, please contact the NIHR Academy office on 0113 532 8410 and a member of the team will be happy to discuss your proposed application.

Are you eligible?

To be eligible for an NIHR Advanced Fellowship you must:

Have a proposed host who is an HEI, NHS body, or other provider of health and/or care services

Hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted your thesis for examination at the time of application (you must have been awarded a PhD or MD by the time you attend the interview)

Not already hold a Chair at the point of application

Complete the relevant pre-registration training (for clinical academic applicants).

Full details of the latest funding rounds are available in funding opportunities.
Advanced Fellowship Timetable

Partnership Fellowships

The NIHR has partnered with a number of charitable organisations to offer jointly funded NIHR Charity Partnership Fellowships and with Pfizer to offer an NIHR Industry Partnership Fellowship. Details are available for the latest Fellowship Round in Funding Opportunities.

Jointly funded Partnership Fellowships enable researchers to:

Maintain and build a relationship with both the NIHR and a partner

Engage with and receive valuable input from patient groups, making the most of the public and patient engagement/involvement opportunities available

Receive greater research exposure through a variety of media and communication channels.

We encourage all applicants interested in applying for a jointly funded Partnership Fellowship to contact the relevant partner to discuss their research area of interest before they apply. Please note all other queries about the application process should be directed to the NIHR Academy.

Useful resources for potential applicants

Development and Skills Enhancement Award

The Development and Skills Enhancement Award (DSE) is a post-doctoral level award aimed at supporting early to mid-career researchers to gain specific skills and experience to underpin the next phase of their health and social care research career. Applicants need to demonstrate what new skills and experience they hope to gain through the award, and how it will benefit their future career in research. The award will support a mixture of researcher-led applications and applications from areas of strategic importance. The current themes are:

health data science

clinical trials

entrepreneurship and working with industry.

Eligibility criteria
Applicants do not have to be NIHR Academy Members to be eligible.
However, all applicants must:

have completed any relevant pre-registration training (clinical academic applications only)

have a proposed host who is an HEI, NHS body, or other provider of health and/or care services

hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted their thesis for examination at the time of application - applicants must have been awarded their PhD or MD by the time they start

have not submitted a DSE application in the previous submission window.

Applicant Guidance Notes should be read before applying, which include more information regarding the eligibility criteria for the scheme.

Check funding opportunities for details of latest funding rounds.

Key dates

The DSE application form is continuously available for applicants to access and begin populating. When ready, applicants can choose from three possible submission windows throughout the year. Please note that awards must start on the first of the month.

Submission window

Review period

Start dates

9 May 2023 - 28 July 2023 (1pm)

August - October

December 2023 - March 2024

29 July 2023 - 24 November 2023 (1pm)

December - February

April 2024 - July 2024

25 November 2023 - 29 March 2024 (1pm)

April - June

August 2024 - November 2024

Useful resources for applicants

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The NIHR Fellowship Programme supports individuals to become leading researchers, from initial pre-doctoral training to senior post-doctoral research.

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Welcome. The aim of this decision tool is to help you decide whether or not your study is research as defined by the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
It is based on the Defining Research table produced by the Research Ethics Service.

You will be presented with a short series of YES or NO questions. Take your time to consider the wording carefully. Once you have answered these questions the tool will let you know if your study is research.

To help you with terminology, a GLOSSARY button is available on every page. All links to individual glossary items or other websites appear in purple text and open in a new window.

Post Market Surveillance is NOT usually considered research. However, there are some circumstances where NHS REC review may be required. Return to the Do I need NHS REC review? tool to determine if your post market surveillance requires NHS REC review.
Follow this link to begin.

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Welcome. The aim of this decision tool is to help you decide whether or not your study is research as defined by the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research. It is based on the Defining Research table produced by the Research Ethics Service.

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After reading this article, I can now differentiate the role of a Clinical research nurse from a nurse researcher. CRN often coordinates and manages a clinical trial. While Research nurse works on a project to acquire new knowledge of a treatment or practice.

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Research Internship Mentor Supervision Record Form March 2024

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One of my challenges during this internship is searching for literature. It was a big confusion on how to start searching and how to search in a database. I was guided on how to narrow my sources and different strategies of searching. Since then, I felt confident and have collected different literature that could help me. I also learned that I can enrol myself to different elearning or classes. The meeting with a librarian helped me jumpstart my literature search.

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22/05/2024

I had a chance to shadow a group of clinical research practitioner on their clinic day. It was a thorough assessment of their prospective candidates for their intervention. Protocols were strictly followed. One patient took about an hour and another follow up was booked after 3 months. Consent should be taken for every procedure, either verbal or written. The study was explained thoroughly by the team and all questioned were answered. It was an interesting experience as everything should be under their protocol.

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This was the final presentation of our journey and our poster for ACORN internship. It was all worth-it. I was a bit nervous when the first presenter started, but I made it. It was a good experience and fulfilling to finally present my work. It was a 10-minute long presentation and everyone in the cohort did a really good job with their work.

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At the end of the presentation, we were rewarded a certificate and a Nightingale scholar badge