Clinical nursing research is an emerging subspecialty that enhances nursing expertise. In an effort to provide a basic educational curriculum on cancer research and clinical trials, a major academic cancer center launched a novel program titled Clinical Research Nursing Grand Rounds that allowed nurses to receive continuing education units. The purpose of the current article is to describe the ...

background in recent decades, health care systems has greatly influenced by the technology development. the technology is helpful to enhance quality of care, reduce costs and improve patient care if appropriate training be applied for technology users. technology user’s training has been studied in some quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the challenges which nurses’...

conclusions many caring behaviors associate with aesthetic experience for both patients and nurses and despite two different views, findings of this study showed that these experiences were similar in most cases. the aesthetics of nursing care was defined as what reflects the holistic nature of nursing with an emphasis on spirituality and skill. results of this study are effective in identifica...

background: clinical learning is one of the important issues that helps the perception of nursing students’ practice in a clinical setting and its effect on their professional development. the aim of this study is to describe and state the manner of clinical learning in nursing students. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted as a grounded theory. the individual semi-struct...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore how nurse researchers in clinical positions experience the presence of a nursing research culture in clinical practice. BACKGROUND Higher demands in the hospitals for increasing the quality of patient care engender a higher demand for the skills of health professionals and evidence-based practice. However, the utilisation of nursing research in clinical practice...

This article focuses on local practice-based research and development. It uses examples from both nursing practice and education to explore some factors that prevent, promote and influence the establishment of a research culture in clinical nursing. The article presents potential approaches for successful practitioner-led and clinical/academic research initiatives, explored through practice dev...

BACKGROUND This paper identifies the views of Iranian clinical nurses regarding the utilization of nursing research in practice. There is a need to understand what restricts Iranian clinical nurses to use research findings. The aim of this study was to identify practicing nurses' view of aspects which they perceived constrain them from research utilization that summarizes and uses research find...

The focus of this article is quality assurance in nursing research. Due to well established problems regarding the education of nursing research and increasing pressure to take responsibility for the quality of all educational activities, departments of nursing are obliged to initiate actions to assure quality in nursing research. A nursing department functions within a well-defined external co...