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Amanda Brock1, Tara Bresnahan, Catriona Grant
1Author Affiliations: Associate Director of Clinical Research Nursing and Training (Dr Brock), Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Nurse Director (Bresnahan), Diabetes Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Senior Director of Operations (Grant), Tearney Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Director (Bosque), Nursing Research Programs, and Nursing Research Quality Specialist (Dr Forbes), MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Project Director (Fitch), The Center for Aging and Serious Illness Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Secretary (Dr Griffith), International Association of Clinical Research Nurses, Mullica Hill, New Jersey; and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Larkin), Diabetes Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
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Clinical research nurses (CRNs) advance evidence-based care and biomedical science. Despite their primacy within research teams, integration of this newly recognized specialty is an opportunity not fully realized. This article describes practical pathways based on structural empowerment models (SEMs) to optimize the integration of CRN expertise within the research and nursing ecosystem. The components of SEM were applied to describe, analyze, and compare the models, yielding examples that can be translated to other practice settings.
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