مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - DETERMINATION OF THE NURSES’ VIEWS OF THE RESEARCH AND THE USE OF RESEARCH RESULTS IN PRACTICAL FIELD

Abstract :

The use of nursing research results in practical field increases the quality of nursing care and enables a fast process of professionalization. This study has been carried out restrictively to determine the nurses’ views of the research and the use of research results in practical field, namely at clinics. In the study, the question form containing questions to describe the socio-demographic and professional qualities of the nurses has been used and so has the “Questionnaire to Determine the Nurses’ Views of the Research and the Use of Research Results”, which was adapted from the “The Barriers to Research Utilization Scale” developed by Funk et al . SPSS 10.0 package program has been used for the evaluation of the data obtained. It has been found out that majority of the nurses have agreed on the remarks that reflect positive comments on the research as follows: “There is a need of the results obtained from the research.”, “Nursing research improves the nursing practices.”, Nursing research enables the development of professionalization in nursing.” and “Nurses are under the obligation of participating in the the research done in the field of nursing.” It has also been discovered that nurses’ deprivation of easy access to research manuscripts, abstruse expression of the statistical analyses in the research manuscripts and lack of time for nurses to read the research manuscripts are regarded as primary preventive factors in the use of research results in practical field.