Nursing Research
What nurse scientists bring to research — and what we're studying.
What is Nursing Research?
The decisions nurses make to care for patients are fundamental to the practice — and nurse scientists have lived those pressures firsthand. That lived experience is what makes the research skills nurses bring to higher education distinctive.
Our nurse scientists collaborate with faculty across the Texas A&M campus and system, and with state and federal funding agencies, health foundations and health systems, to build the scientific foundation for practice — from the beginning of life through childhood, adulthood, aging, and end-of-life and palliative care — and to translate findings into knowledge for the next generation.
Aligned with NINR’s Mission
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) "supports basic and clinical research that develops the knowledge to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevent disease and disability, manage and eliminate symptoms caused by illness, and enhance end-of-life and palliative care." Our scientists' areas of interest align with all of NINR's priorities.
Active Research
Examples of current nursing research at the college:
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Cancer screening, prevention and education
- Chronic disease self-management, including diabetes
- Domestic violence and intimate partner violence prevention
- End-of-life and palliative care
- Forensic nursing
- Human trafficking
- Maternal-child health, preterm birth and birth outcomes
- Post-menopausal symptoms and blood glucose transport
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Prenatal genetic testing
- Racial and ethnic disparities
- Rural disparities
- Sexual assault examination — training and education
- Substance use disorder