Individual and institutional capacities for research in health systems and nursing services in Cuba
Keywords:
Nursing, Health systems, Health services, Nursing research, Research support as topic, CubaAbstract
Introduction: Research on health systems and health services allows the decision-making on the basis of well-founded evidence; however, this field of study has scarcely been addressed by nurses. Our aim was to describe the experience of implementing an educational strategy in professional nurses and managers to develop individual and institutional capacities in the execution of research in health systems and health services in Cuba.
Development: To implement the strategy, the referents of constructivism and action research were taken into account. Some workshops were set up for designing, monitoring and also for the participants to get familiar with the strategy. Their results were implemented in 13 research projects for decision-making in institutions and nursing services.
Conclusions: Individual and institutional capacities in participants for conducting research in health systems and health services were developed. The results support a new phase of sustainability of the strategy, which entails the projection of the strategy at a national level.
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