Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Nursing
Date Submitted: Mar 30, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Mar 31, 2020 - Apr 18, 2020
Date Accepted: Apr 22, 2020
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Simulation Modeling as a Novel and Promising Strategy for Improving Success Rates with Research Funding Applications: A Constructive Thought Experiment
ABSTRACT
Writing successful grant or other funding applications is a necessary requirement for continued employment, promotion, and tenure among nursing faculty and researchers. Writing successful applications is a challenging task, with often uncertain results. The inability to secure funding not only threatens the ability of nurse researchers to conduct important healthcare research, but may also negatively impact their career trajectories. Many individuals and organizations have offered advice for improving success with funding applications. While helpful, those recommendations are common knowledge and simply form the basis of any well-considered, well-formulated, and well-written application. For nurse researchers interested in taking advantage of innovative computational methods and leading-edge analytical techniques, we propose adding the results from computer-based simulation modeling experiments to funding applications. By first conducting a research study in a virtual space, nurse researchers can refine their study design, test various assumptions, conduct experiments, and better determine which elements, variables, and parameters are necessary for answering their research question. In short, simulation modeling is a learning tool, and the modeling process helps nurse researchers gain additional insights that can be applied in their real-world research, and used to strengthen funding applications. Simulation modeling is well-suited for answering quantitative research questions, but the design of these models can benefit greatly from the addition of qualitative data, and can be helpful when simulating the results of mixed methods studies. We believe this is a promising strategy for improving success rates with funding applications, especially among nurse researchers interested in contributing new knowledge supporting the paradigm shift in nursing resulting from advances in computational science, and information technology.
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