Research as part of your career as a nurse or midwife

You can help improve people's health and care by getting involved in research.

The main ways you can get involved are through:

Supporting research

As a nurse or midwife, you can help with research projects to improve services. You can also support people to take part in research studies.

Here are examples of ways to get involved:

  • find out about research studies in your area of work
  • give people opportunities to understand how they can get involved in research
  • help to implement existing research findings into practice
  • become a research champion
  • take part in a journal club
  • be part of a community of research practice

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Ask your employer’s research and development team or research colleagues at work.

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Delivering research

As part of a wider research team you can support studies to meet planned timescales, recruit participants and complete tests and reports for the study.

What do research nurses and midwives do?

The video below explains what research nurses do:

Responsibilities include:

  • inviting people to join research studies
  • caring for participants
  • carrying out study procedures
  • gathering study data
  • developing new treatments, procedures or practices based on research findings

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Ask your employer’s research and development team or research colleagues at work.

Leading research

As a research leader, you could write your own protocol and secure funding to carry out your own research into a new treatment, intervention, care pathway or regimen.

Leaders also support colleagues to ensure research studies are run safely and accurately.

There are also specific roles for research leaders.

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Ask your employer’s research and development team or research colleagues at work.

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