A group of nurse scientists is building a national collaborative to formalize the role within hospitals. Nurse scientists have been around for decades, but their prominence is increasing nationally as their influence in hospital care grows. Many of the top 100 systems in the U.S. have at least one clinically based nurse scientist on staff. Magnet recognition, research that calls for more doctorally prepared nurses, more academic-practice partnerships and an overall increase in education levels among nurses have all helped put more nurse scientists into the hospital care setting. Yet many nurse scientists find themselves the only one of their kind in the system. 

“You’re kind of on an island in this role,” Perry Gee, PhD, RN, enterprise director of nursing research and evidence-based pract

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