Professioni infermieristiche
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To identify orientations in Italian nursing research regarding nursing practice, highlighting strengths, needs for improvement, as well as suggestions and recommendations for promoting the future development of nursing knowledge. ⋯ Italian nursing researchers tend to focus their investigations on technical and educational topics. Theoretical or philosophical frameworks are almost completely missing in the literature, highlighting the need for more work in this area. In most cases, Italian researchers do not seem to follow research tracks based on research priorities, highlighting the need to review practice settings to identify areas that need to be developed, explored or consolidated. For Italian nurses, research is an area that is still under development and consolidation, but with strong potential for the future.