title: Staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing research: a descriptive survey.
abstract: Staff nurse involvement in clinical nursing research is dependent on the attitudes nurses hold toward research. An exploration of these attitudes was undertaken in a 464-bed midwestern teaching hospital as it developed its nursing research procedures. A questionnaire was developed which incorporated the Boothe Attitudes on Nursing Research Scale. All registered nurses (n = 925) at the facility were surveyed with a response rate of 77.8% (n = 720). Findings indicated that many nurses were interested in research and believed that the institution would support research activities and the implementation of research findings. Some deterrences to conducting research included: time, lack of knowledge, and the nurses's perception of the supervisory support and the research support services.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Bostrom
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malnight
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacDougall
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hargis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015399:Nursing Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires