1. Utilization of Nursing Research

2. WHY? A sound foundation for practice
Enhanced autonomy, critical thinking skills
Improving quality of patient care
Improve patient outcome
A stimulus for a collaborative practice
improving nursing image
Increasing scientific nursing knowledge

3. Utilization Criteria Clinical relevant (does it solve our problems?
Scientific merit (the results accurate, reliable and generalizable)
Implementation potential
a. feasibility
b. cost/benefit ratio
c. transferability

4. Barriers to Research Utilization
Research related barriers:
Insufficient current research with solution to complex clinical problems
Some research are not replicated
Much research are not published (e.g. dissertation and thesis)
Difficult research reports

5. Barriers to Research Utilization
Clinician related barriers:
Attitudes toward nursing research (e.g., nursing research makes problems)
Practitioners are not costumed to read journal articles
Dependence on tradition
Educator-practitioner gap

6. Barriers to Research Utilization
Administration related barriers:
Minimum value given to research by administrators
Less resource hive to research
Lack of nursing autonomy
Lack of incentives
Reliance on policy and procedures

7. Strategies to facilitate research utilization
Writing to clinician audience in an understandable meaningful way
Motivate practitioners to read journal articles
Announcing through board and newsletter
In-service education department
Encourage participation in scientific panels and conferences