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1Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster, England.
Background:
This article offers a reflection by a novice researcher undertaking an integrated clinical academic internship with the National Institute for Health Research and Health Education England.
Aim:
To offer insight into research internships, and demonstrate the benefits and challenges encountered.
Discussion:
Exposure to research while remaining in clinical practice gives nurses the opportunity to increase their knowledge, develop research skills and network. Associated challenges include feeling like a novice, balancing the demands of clinical practice and research, and the development of new skills.
Conclusion:
Internship programmes can create health systems in which practitioners also undertake research but there are associated challenges.
Implications For Practice:
Research internships offer nurses insight and exposure to a world of research that may previously have been invisible to them; they can act as a platform for nurses to develop clinical academic careers.
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