ORIGINAL ARTICLES R ESEARCH S UPPORT IN DOCTORAL - G RANTING S CHOOLS OF N URSING : A D ECADE L ATER CATHERINE A.BEVIL,E DD, RN, ⁎ MARLENE Z.COHEN,P HD, RN, FAAN,† JOHN R.SHERLOCK,BS,‡ SAUNJOO L. YOON, P HD, RN,§ AND CAROLYN B.YUCHA,PHD, RN, FAAN|| Many nursing schools invest resources in offices to support research efforts and to strengthen research programs for external funding. This article will describe the resources available for research support in schoolsof nursingwith doctoraldegree-granting programs. Usinga descriptive survey design, invitations and links to the online survey were sent to deans of nursing schools offering doctoral degrees as identified by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Response rate was 70.6% (120/170 eligible institutions), and 75% had a research office. Presence of a research office was associated with being in an academic health sciences center, being located in a public institution, and offering a doctor of philosophy (PhD) program. In 2009–2010, the average budget for the research offices was $390,000. Research offices were staffed by a director (88.6%), a grant administrator (78%), a statistician (74%), and a clerical staff (58.6%) and provided an array of services including grant support, scholarly support, and faculty development services. Nursingschoolsprovidedvarioussupportservicesforresearch productivity. Of those schools reporting that they had a research office, 59% had received National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in the past year. Greater NIH funding was associated with those research offices employing more staff and offices existing for longer periods. (Index words:Nursing research offices; Research support; Nursing doctoral programs) J ProfNurs 28:74–81, 2012.© 2012 Elsevier Inc. Allrights reserved. N URSING RESEARCH CENTERS and offices have been an important resource within schools and colleges of nursing with doctoral programs engaging in research ( Yoon,Wolfe,Yucha,& Tsai,2002).In 2000, Yoon et al. conducted a survey to describe the resources for research support used by the schools of nursing with doctoral programs. At the time the survey was conducted, approximately 82 schools of nursing in the United States had doctoralprogramsor collaborative/joint doctoral programs (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2000,as cited by Yoon etal.). Since then, doctoral programs in nursing have increased dramatical- ly, especially with the development of the doctorof nursing practice (DNP) program in 2005. In 2008, there were approximately 264 doctoral programs in nursing in the United States, including 167 PhD programs and 97 DNP programs, located in 173 institutions. Of these, 91 institutions had both PhD and DNP programs, whereas 76 had only PhD programs and 6 had only DNP programs (AACN, 2008).In this study, the term school is used to ∗Professor and Director, Continuing Nursing Education and Evaluation, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. †Professor and Kenneth E. Morehead Endowed Chair in Nursing and Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. ‡Data Specialist, College ofNursing,University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. §AssociateProfessor,Adult and Elderly Department, Collegeof Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. ||Professor and Dean,Schoolof Nursing,University ofNevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. Address correspondence to Dr. Bevil:The University of Nebraska MedicalCenter,College ofNursing,Room 5071, 985330 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5330. E-mail: cbevil@unmc.edu 8755-7223/11/$ - see front matter Journal of Professional Nursing, Vol 28,No. 2 (March–April), 2012:pp 74–81 74 © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.11.016