AACN's Research Priority Areas

These current priorities reflect areas of interest and relevance to AACN and its members and provide a framework for identifying potential gaps in the development or use of nursing knowledge.

These have been summarized into five broad priority areas to guide future research activities and initiatives.

• Effective and appropriate use of technology to achieve optimal patient assessment, management and/or outcomes
• Creation of healing, humane environment
• Processes and systems that foster the optimal contribution of critical care nurses
• Effective approaches to symptom management
• Prevention and management of complications

Read Key Issues and Recommendations on Critical Care Research by the Multisociety Task Force of the Critical Care Societies Collaborative — AACN, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society and Society of Critical Care Medicine — in the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC):

• Executive Summary
• Full Article