Linking innovative nursing practice to health services research

For many nurses, the first step toward becoming a nurse researcher is to ob tain help to develop and conduct research that documents outcomes of their novel innovation. These opportunities to engage in health services research of ten require collaborating with trained researchers who may not have cli nical backgrounds. Collaboration generates learning and sharing processes t hat can be rewarding on many levels. To understand the realities of the col laboration process, this article provides a case study as the authors recou nt their experiences.