 New Brunswick nurses' views on nursing research, and factors influencing their research activities in clinical practiceSylvie Robichaud‐Ekstrand Nursing & Health Sciences, 2016, vol. 18, issue 2, 246-255 Abstract: New Brunswick became the first province in Canada to require a baccalaureate degree in nursing as the entry to practice, yet nursing research in hospital settings remains quite low. This study examined clinical nurses' views on nursing research, and identified some contributing factors to the research‐practice gap. This descriptive, cross‐sectional multicenter study involved 1081 nurses working in the Francophone Regional Health Authority in New Brunswick, Canada. Nurses were eager to identify nursing‐care problems to improve patient care (92.9%), and to be involved in collecting data for nursing research studies (95.2%). However, without research supervision, few had engaged in basic research activities, such as formulating or refining research questions (24.5%), presenting at research conferences (6.9%), or changing their practice based on research findings (27.2%). Younger, more educated nurses, nurse managers, and educators participated more readily in research. Sharing research and clinical expertise, as well as infrastructures between academic and clinical institutions is the key to enduring successful patient‐centered nursing research in clinical settings. Concrete actions are proposed to build clinical nursing research. Date: 2016 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:nuhsci:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:246-255 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Nursing & Health Sciences from John Wiley & Sons |
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