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Bridging the research-practice gap: exploring the research cultures of practitioners and managers.
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The research culture of practising nurses, health visitors and midwives, and their managers is described by describing the nature of research, its role, and the opportunities and constraints which effect its dissemination and utilization.Abstract:
To ensure effective utilization of research in nursing more evidence is needed which illuminates the way nurses think about research, the value which they put on it, and how they envisage that it may help or hinder them in their everyday work. This English study aimed to meet these objectives by describing the research culture of practising nurses, health visitors and midwives, and their managers. It rests on two assumptions. Firstly that the reasons why practitioners do, or do not, base their practice on research are complex, and secondly, that interventions to increase research utilization must be grounded in an appreciation of this complex ‘whole’. Thus the study took a qualitative approach to exploring: what participants thought and felt about research; the current status of research based practice; and the opportunities and constraints to increasing research based practice. The results confirm the hypothesis that many factors, both individual and organizational affect research utilization. Furthermore, practitioners and managers hold differing perceptions regarding the nature of research, its role, and the opportunities and constraints which effect its dissemination and utilization. The implications of the results for education, policy and practice are discussed.read more
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Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care
John Gabbay,Andrée le May +1 more
TL;DR: Clinicians rarely accessed and used explicit evidence from research or other sources directly, but relied on “mindlines”—collectively reinforced, internalised, tacit guidelines—to derive individual and collective healthcare decisions.
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The use of research to improve professional practice: a systematic review of the literature
TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic literature review to explore: how teachers use research; which features of research encourage teachers to use research findings in their own practice; whether medical practitioners make greater use of research findings than teachers; and approaches to dissemination.
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Managerial Leadership for Nurses' Use of Research Evidence: An Integrative Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Three activities were found in quantitative studies that influenced nurses' use of research: managerial support, policy revisions, and auditing, which have important implications for evolving theoretical models describing factors that affect the process of research utilization.
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Translating research into practice. Considerations for critical care investigators
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a diffusion of innovation model to support the adoption of evidence-based guidelines in critical care practice, based on the characteristics of a guideline, users of the guideline, methods of communicating the guideline and the social system in which it is being adopted.
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Beyond the BARRIERS Scale: commonly reported barriers to research use.
TL;DR: To identify the most commonly cited barriers to the use of research in practice, the findings arising from studies that used the Barriers to Research Utilization Scale are examined.
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Variables related to research utilization in nursing: an empirical investigation.
Victoria L. Champion,Anna Leach +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that attitude and availability were related to research utilization and can be used to develop strategies to increase research utilization.
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From research to practice: one organizational model for promoting research-based practice.
TL;DR: The challenges that have arisen in attempting to combine traditional research activities with more practice-based development work are shared, highlighting the variety of partnerships to be established in order to achieve the goal of integrating research into practice.
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The process of translating research findings into nursing practice
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the demands of these processes are beyond the capacity of any one individual nurse and require systematic organizational approaches such as that proposed by quality assurance programmes.
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Utilization of nursing research: culture, interest and support
Closs Sj,Francine M Cheater +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that research is not highly regarded in the UK and that the required level of interest and support depend on nursing research becoming an expected, valued and rewarded activity.