Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $210 (nonmember, $260)
Attendance Maximum: 30

Instructor(s): Brenda Pfannenstiel, AHIP, coordinator, Kreamer Family Resource Center, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO

Offered: Friday, May 19, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

This course will show participants the benefits to their careers and their profession of doing research. Participants will acquaint themselves with the research process: framing the hypothesis or question, designing the study, acquiring the means to collect data, collecting and analyzing data, publishing, and evaluating. Using lecture, examples from the instructor's experience, and case studies of library research, participants will review available resources (funding, release time, mentors, instruments, etc.) and discuss methods for overcoming their own obstacles (skill deficits, time management issues, motivation fatigue, etc.), with the ultimate goal of becoming researchers themselves.