Engaging Undergraduate Nursing Students in Research: The Students’ Experience of a Summer Internship Program Pilot Project

Abstract

Educators continue to struggle with ways to foster an interest in and a passion for nursing research among undergraduate students. The purpose of this article is to describe the introduction of undergraduate student internships at the Manitoba Centre for Nursing and Health Research, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, as an innovation in education that allowed students to be employed while engaging them in student learning, scientific inquiry, and scholarship through one-to-one faculty–student research mentorships. In this article, the key components of the summer internship program are described, along with five nursing students’ experiences of their participation in the program. [ J Nurs Educ. 2013;52(8):466–469.]