Office of Nursing Research
Faculty and students in the School of Nursing are engaged in research addressing a variety of contemporary clinical and health policy questions. Interdisciplinary research teams are focusing on developing knowledge that will support nursing practice, health care innovations and policy change. Much of the work of researchers in the school ties in with larger interdisciplinary strategic themes at Emory and across the Woodruff Health Sciences. Pertinent areas of inquiry include symptom management in acute and chronic illness such as Cancer and Heart Failure and the impact of interacting symptoms – such as sleep disruption – on symptom expression and management. Faculty scholarship includes work focused on improving health outcomes and self management in a variety of conditions (e.g., HIV/AIDs, diabetes, and PTSD). Work is also ongoing regarding the role of family, community, and spirituality in the support of persons faced with a variety of chronic illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Consistent with strategic themes in the school and across the university, a number of faculty members are engaged in international research, much of it focused on issues of maternal and newborn infant mortality.
The Office of Nursing Research provides support to faculty members and students as they seek support for their scholarship and as they conduct their funded work.
Research of faculty members from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is nearly universally interdisciplinary in nature. Many Centers and Institutes at Emory facilitate research collaboration. Among the most closely aligned are the following:
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Emory Global Health Institute whose mission is to advance Emory University’s efforts to improve health around the world.
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The Winship Cancer Institute, Georgia’s first comprehensive cancer institute.
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The Neuroscience Initiative is part of Emory University's strategic plan:Where Courageous Inquiry Leads: 2005 - 2015. The initiative links a large and distributed neuroscience research effort, highly regarded neuroclinical services, an outstanding interdepartmental neuroscience graduate training program, and a robust undergraduate neuroscience major program.
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The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center which provides Georgia and surrounding states with outstanding clinical, research, and educational programs related to the treatment, care and cure of Alzheimer’s disease.
