Washington State University College of Nursing researcher Marian Wilson, PhD, RN and Stanford University’s Beth Darnall, PhD received a five-year, $2.6 million National Institutes of Health grant to study how rural nurses can expand pain management options and improve access to nonpharmacological pain care in their communities.
Wilson, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Nursing and Systems Science, and Dr. Darnall will study outcomes when rural nurses deliver Empowered Relief®, a 1-session pain management intervention.
The project brings together researchers and health care partners from Stanford University, Providence Health, Klickitat Valley Health, and Duke University.
Duke University Associate Professor Mitchell Knisely, PhD, RN, will serve as a site principal investigator and support recruitment through the university’s rural partnerships in North Carolina. Caleb Holtzer, MD MPH, a family medicine physician with Providence, will lead recruitment through Providence Stevens County clinics in northeastern Washington.
WSU College of Nursing alumna Penny Andress, RN, will serve as site principal investigator for recruitment through Klickitat Valley Health in Goldendale, Washington, where she works as a clinical project manager.
The five-year collaboration will help researchers evaluate a model that equips rural nurses to bring additional pain management resources directly to the communities they serve.
Pilot work supporting the project received funding from the American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN) and was led by Holly Watson, PhD, a Washington-based nurse practitioner who will serve as consultant on the new grant.
Research information reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01NR022262. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.