Center For Research & Evidence Based Practice
 
 

Core Staff
Data Management Team


Director

Harriet Kitzman, RN, PhD

Overview

  

The purposes of the Center for Research and Evidence Based Practice are to:

  • Facilitate the research and scholarly development of the School of Nursing faculty and their intra- and inter-disciplinary collaborators
  • Provide training opportunities for Pre and Post doctoral fellows in all phases of the research process
  • Advance research dissemination and evidence-based practice
Center for Research and Evidence – Based Practice

Services

Research Consultation and Implementation Services

These are a comprehensive, vertically integrated set of services designed to speed research development by making experts and resources readily accessible to the investigator at each phase of the research process.

Consultation/Design

    • Mentorship
    • Biostatisitican consultation
    • Sample size Determination
    • Design and Methods
    • Preliminary identification and design of instruments
    • IRB Consultation
    • Proposal Development

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Technical Support/Data Management

    • Instrument development
    • Procedure manual/Coding
    • Building database screens
    • Entering/verification cleaning
    • Variable creation; psychometric evaluation
    • Analysis

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Data Gathering

    • Conducting Interviews
    • Observations
    • Web Based Archive Record Retrieval

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Systems Operations

    • Budget development
    • Initial set-up of service; timetable and staff required (tracking project)
    • Financial oversight
    • Project management
    • Assistance with IRB submission
    • IRB reports
    • Accessing exciting data sets

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Software

    • Access; DBMS Copy
    • Endnote; Excel
    • Filemaker Pro; HLM
    • LISREL;MPLUS;AMOS
    • Atlas-T;NUDIST
    • QDS-ACASI
    • SAMPLE;POWER
    • SAS; SPSS
    • SUDAN ; STATA

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Pre- and Post-Award Administrative Services

General Support Services

    • Development of a research program trajectory
    • Assistance with manuscript preparation, including editorial review
    • Design and preparation of research related presentations materials, including slides/posters

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Grant Proposal Submission Support and Facilitation of Process

    • Scientific Critique of proposals
    • Mock NIH-style reviews
    • Budget development and review
    • Biographical sketch (maintain)
    • Boiler Plate Documentation
    • Graphic Supports (tables, charts, models)
    • Electronic submission and facilitation of process

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Research Management Post Award Management

    • Financial Management
    • Interpretation of Federal Regulations & Guidelines
    • Liaison with External Agencies and internal departments
    • Assists with non-competing renewal preparation
    • Provide Certified Grant Administrator

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Related Links

Center for High-Risk Children and Youth
Center for Clinical Research on Aging