Survey of barriers to scientific application of evidence-based nursing / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To discuss the barriers influencing the application of evidence-based nursing. Methods Nine hundred nurses from August 2013 to February 2014 were selected from five polyclinics in Shenzhen by randomly cluster sampling according to different departments and wards. We carried out the survey with the Chinese version of cognitive of impairment of nursing scientific research scale. Results The sores of 4 dimesions of scientific application of evidence-based nursing from high to low were effectiveness and system of research, resource to evidence-based nursing, quality of research and attitude and ability of nursing staff. The main barriers in applying scientific research payoffs by the nursing staff included the deficient resource and equipment provided by hospitals (68.09%), the jumbled medical development information confused the nurses in selecting related reference (66.75%), failing to put the scientific achievements into practice (66.01%),insufficient time to actualize new ideas (64.15%), and difficulty in obtaining the reference of scientific research (64.04%). Conclusion The barriers to scientrfic application of evidence-based nursing were the deficient resource and time and difficulties to find evidence. The nursing policy makers should adopt efficient measures aimed at the difficulties the nursing staff in applying their research results, thereby popularize the application of research achievements in hospitals.