Translational Cancer Nursing Research: What Will Your Contribution Be?

Abstract

Over the past decade, reference to translational research has increasingly dominated our research semantic. There are multiple definitions of translational research, but the most commonly understood is the transfer of biomedical knowledge from bench to clinical trial and from clinical trial to bedside as a component of usual care. As an international community of cancer nurse clinicians, researchers, educators and leaders, it is our collective responsibility to redress this omission. This article depicts ways in which cancer nurses can, and already do contribute to knowledge translation.