Recommendations for Building Geropsychiatric Nursing Science: A Commentary

Setting a robust research agenda for geropsychiatric nursing science will encompass both short-term methodologic goals and longer term funding, knowledge development, and dissemination goals. This article identifies immediate needs in the areas of multidisciplinary training, collaborative research models, and selection of research designs appropriate to the types of studies that are the particular province of geropsychiatric nursing scientists, for example, prevention, translational, and effectiveness evaluation of different interventions for aging populations. Longer term goals include nurturance of productive research mentor-mentee relationships within the specialty and development of innovative means for disseminating the yield of nursing research.