Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

Nursing Research Fund

The Nursing Research Fund, a $25 million endowment from the federal government, was created in 1999 to develop nursing researchers and to support research on nursing recruitment, retention, management, and the issues emerging from health system restructuring.

New expenditures against this fund are being wound down in 2009. Nursing and nursing-related activities are being integrated within the Foundation's existing and future funding initiatives.

Created in December 2001 by the Board of Trustees, the nursing committee provided a strategic forum to guide issues related to nursing research, nursing practice, and capacity development. The committee's work wraps up in 2009.

The Foundation disburses an average of $2.5 million in support of nursing research each year to support:

• CIHR's Partnership for Health System Improvement co-sponsorship fund
• Joint Training Awards for Nurses
• Research, Exchange and Impact for System Support (REISS)
• Knowledge networks and dissemination activities
• CADRE Program including the Chairs, Regional Training Centres and Postdoctoral Awards to address short-term and long-term capacity-building for applied health services and nursing research
• Nursing Care Partnership Fund for research on nursing care, administered by the Canadian Nurses Foundation, used a collaborative structure to create new funding partnerships that supported research on nursing care issues. The Partnership established links with 52 organizations, including specialty groups and healthcare corporations and institutes. One hundred and ninety-two projects were approved for funding.

Reports

• 2008 Annual Report on the Nursing Research Fund
• Nursing Research in Canada: A Status Report
• Evaluation of the Nursing Research Fund: appendices
• 2007 Annual Report on the Nursing Research Fund
• 2006 Annual Report on the Nursing Research Fund

CHSRF Resources

• Evidence-informed management decision-making: Is it a possibility in healthcare? Sister Elizabeth Davis (June 7, 2007)
• Nursing: The future Sister Elizabeth Davis (March 25, 2007)
• Looking Forward, Working Together: Priorities for Nursing Leadership in Canada (March 21, 2006)
• What's Ailing our Nurses? A Discussion of the Major Issues Affecting Nursing Human Resources in Canada Alicia Priest (March 2006)
• Promising Practice: How a B.C. hospital uses research evidence to improve care for elderly patients (March 2006)
• A Commitment to Nursing (May 2005)
• Commitment and Care: The benefits of a healthy workplace for nurses, their patients and the system (2001)