Determination and Quantification Of Content Validity

Using a standardized language to increase collaboration between research and practice

A TEST OF THE EQUIPERCENTILE HYPOTHESIS OF THE TIERS NORM‐REFERENCED MODEL

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Anne M. Fink, PhD, RN, FAHA Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, PhD, RN, FAHA Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson. The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. Correspondence Anne M. Fink, PhD, RN, FAHA, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Room 750, 845 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60612 ([email protected]).

This article describes the co-created educational process used within a vulnerable populations doctoral seminar. The objective of this seminar was to integrate students' knowledge of vulnerable populations for the purpose of developing their program of research. Because this was the first cohort to enroll in the course, the process used to ultimately achieve the objective was flexible. This flexibility, combined with a professor who approached teaching from a philosophy of partnership, resulted in the creation of an especially mutual, intensive, and innovative learning environment. A collaborative scholarly paper, which transcended the seminar's objective, emerged from the students' enthusiasm with the learning process. The success of this learning process challenges doctoral faculty to consider how knowledge-building through mutual partnerships with doctoral students can be integrated into existing learning environments.

Because practice-research conflicts confront nurses and investigators in clinical settings, our department of nursing research section found the need for collaboration and negotiation to be the major characteristic of practice setting research. Moreover, in the process of collaboration and negotiation, a number of problems arise for which alternative solutions need to be considered and tried. These problems include risk taking, vested interest, the rights of research subjects, and the need to produce both scientific and practical knowledge. The challenges faced when conducting research in practice settings are only partially predictable and only partially resolvable, but they are always exciting. The potential contributions are considerable since the basic challenge is to produce relevant, accurate information for immediate practice decisions, as well as to construct design and analysis methods that allow the project to contribute to nursings' general body of knowledge.

doctoral student, University of Arizona, Tucson assistant professor, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson.

This is the final report corresponding to the full funding period (08/01-07/04) in the Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Grant DE-FG03-01ER41196. The development of an understanding of the interplay between perturbative and non-perturbative effects in strong-interacting systems forms the broad context of this research. The main thrust is the application of effective theories to QCD. Topics included a new power counting in the pionful effective theory, low-energy Compton scattering, charge-symmetry breaking in pion production and in the two-nucleon potential, parity violation, coupled-channel scattering, shallow resonances and halo nuclei, chiral symmetry in the baryon spectrum, existence of a tetraquark state, and molecular meson states. DOE grant DE-FG03-01ER41196 was used to partially support in the period 08/01-07/04 the research activities of the Principal Investigator, Dr. Ubirajara van Kolck, one post-doctoral research associate, Dr. Boris A. Gelman, and one graduate student, Mr. Will Hockings. During the grant period the PI was first Assistant then Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona (UA), and a RHIC Physics Fellow at the RIKEN-BNL Research Center (RBRC). The association with RBRC ended in the Summer of 2004. Since September of 2002 the PI has also been partially supported by a Sloan Research Fellowship. Dr. Boris Gelman was supported by the grant from September 2002 to May 2004. He joined the UA after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in the Summer of 2002. He left to take a research associate position in the nuclear theory group of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The support of a post-doctoral researcher on this grant for two years was only possible by carrying over first- and second-year funds to later years. In addition, Mr. William Hockings started doing research under the PI's guidance. Mr. Hockings took Independent Study courses with the PI, while working as a teaching assistant in the UA Department of Physics. He learned the basic ideas of non-relativistic effective field theories, such as ''reparametrization'' invariance, and studied a simple application of effective field theory to Compton scattering on the nucleon at energies well below the pion mass. Mr. Hockings has passed the qualifying exam (called ''comprehensive'' at UA) with a solid performance, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, supported by the grant. Grant activities are described in Sect. 2. They included the publication of research papers, the delivery of seminars and lectures, and the organization of scientific meetings and (together with UA colleagues) of a series of local seminars, as listed in the Appendix.

Resolution of Respect: Professor Paul Schultz Martin 1928–2010

Author Affiliations: Regional Director of Home Health Services, Banner Home Care, Gilbert, Arizona; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.FigureCorrespondence: 1325 N Fiesta Blvd, Suite 1, Gilbert AZ 85212 ([email protected]).

The first speaker is Dr. Lori Martin-Plank, an established academic at the University of Arizona, College of Nursing. Dr. Martin-Plank will provide her experiences in advocating for older adults in Pennsylvania and nationally through professional organizations, meeting with coalition partners to promote access to care for vulnerable older adults in rural areas by promoting full practice authority for nurse practitioners, and advocating for full home health authority for nurse practitioners. Dr. Martin-Plank will share how she is active in advocacy and policy at the local, state and federal levels, and how to build a presence and relationship with legislators on The Hill and State Capitol. Dr. Martin-Plank is a family, gerontological, and mental health nurse practitioner, practicing in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Arizona.

President, Falter and Associates Inc, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, University of Arizona, College of Nursing, Tucson, Arizona ([email protected]). The author declares no conflict of interest.

Jennifer S. Mensik, MBA/HCM, RN, Director of Nursing, Banner Home Care, Gilbert, Ariz; Doctoral Student, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson ([email protected])

CAROLYN H. SMELTZER, EdD, RN, FAAN, is Senior Associate Hospital Administrator, University Medical Center at the Arizona Health Sciences Center and Adjunct Clinical Professor, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. ADA SUE HINSHAW, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Director, National Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.