Journal of nursing management
-
To identify predictors of nurses' self-reported barriers to using research findings in clinical practice. ⋯ To support research utilization and evidence-based care health care leaders, head nurses and nurse managers should create clear and realistic goals for the work place including demands on evidence-based care. It is also important for head nurses and nurse managers to create strategies for supporting nurses' professional development and possibilities to implement research findings in clinical practice.
-
To determine the prevalence and contributing factors of moral distress in medical and surgical nurses. ⋯ Strategies aimed to minimize exposure to situations of moral distress and augment mechanisms mitigating its effect on nurses are necessary to enhance job satisfaction and retention.
-
The context of the healthcare setting may play a crucial role in influencing the implementation of best practice guidelines in nursing. Further study is required to understand these organizational factors. Two variables, organizational culture and leadership, are thought to influence the adoption of best practice guidelines. ⋯ Nursing leaders interested in promoting the use of best practice guidelines must pay attention to the organizational context in which nursing care occurs. A supportive culture where learning is valued coupled with transformational leadership may be key factors in the implementation and the sustainability of best practice guidelines.
-
Few studies focused on nurses' career commitment and nurses' job performance. This research aimed at studying variables of nurses' career commitment and job performance, and assessing the relationship between the two concepts as well as their predictors. ⋯ Nurses' career commitment and job performance are inter-related complex concepts that require further studies to understand, promote and maintain these positive factors in work environments.
-
To determine the extent to which clinical nursing practice has adopted research evidence. To identify barriers to the application of research findings in practice and to propose ways of overcoming these barriers. ⋯ This paper reviewed the research evidence from several published research papers and provides consultant nurses with practical suggestions on how to enhance research evidence application in their practice. It recommends how consultant nurses can make their practice more research transparent by providing the required leadership, creating a research-friendly organization, developing a clear research agenda and facilitating staff develop a local research framework for reading research and implementing research evidence in their practice.