Research Article

Leading Change and Advancing Health by Enhancing Nurses' and Midwives' Knowledge, Ability and Confidence to Conduct Research through a Clinical Scholar Program in Western Australia

Table 4

Summary of Clinical Scholar Program.

WorkshopMorning topicsAfternoon topics

1Getting to know youReading journal articles
Effective mentor/mentee relationshipsHow to critique
Introduction to researchStart documenting research ideas and bring to the next session
2Problem statementProposal development
Hypothesis
Literature review/critique
Quantitative/qualitative design
3Quantitative/qualitative sampling and data collectionProposal development
Descriptive and inferential
statistics
Qualitative data analysis
4Reliability/validity/
trustworthiness
Proposal development
Ethics
Budget/time line
5Project management introductionProposal development
Project scope management
6Project cost managementProposal development
Human resource management
Project communication management