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For over 20 years, nursing literature has discussed the gap between the conduct of research and the use of its findings to improve practice. Factors relating to the nurse, the setting, the research, and the way research is presented have been identified as barriers to research utilization. A combined approach that includes specialty organizations that take the lead in knowledge synthesis and dissemination, the creation of national on-line databases, and enhanced institutional supports and educational efforts is recommended.
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Diffusion of Innovation , Nursing Care , Nursing Research , Clinical Nursing Research , Forecasting , Humans , Models, NursingABSTRACT
Writing for publication with staff nurses can provide CNSs with flexible and creative approaches to the challenges facing nurses in the restructuring health care environment. CNSs experience many rewards and satisfactions from writing and measurable outcomes for practice evaluation. Staff nurses gain clinical knowledge, professional and career development, and the excitement that accompanies completion of a scholarly endeavor. Being in the clinical arena gives the CNS unique opportunities to work with and mentor staff nurses and observe their special capabilities, including those of a potential writing partner. How one CNS selected writing partners and supported these staff nurse colleagues through the writing-for-publication process is described in this article.
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Nurse Clinicians , Nursing Staff , Publishing , Writing , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , MentorsABSTRACT
Barriers to the use of research in practice include problems with the availability of research, the manner in which it is presented, and the use of the research. They also include barriers in the setting and "shortcomings" of individual nurses. Most approaches to increasing research utilization have focused on the "shortcomings" of clinicians. A more useful approach is to make changes in both education and practice to rejoin researchers and clinicians and to reconnect the conduct and use of research.
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Diffusion of Innovation , Nursing Care , Nursing Research , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Nursing Care/methods , Nursing Staff/education , Nursing Staff/psychologySubject(s)
Diffusion of Innovation , Nursing Research , Reading , Nursing Research/methods , WritingSubject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Nurses/psychology , Nursing Care/methods , Nursing Research , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Nursing Care/standards , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Good writing will not of itself produce a good research grant proposal. Nevertheless, a well-organized, well-written proposal can help you get funded, so it's worth some effort. This article provides guidelines for writing all the standard parts of a proposal.