title: Pause for thought: nurses use research--don't they?
abstract: The issues surrounding nurses and their use of research are many and complex. Experience in a newly developing area of nursing--the management of lymphodema--has revealed three key reasons why nurses do not, on the whole, use the research process to answer clinical problems or use the results of research to change clinical practice. First, nurses tend not to see research as their own responsibility; secondly, they tend not to read on a regular basis; and finally, nurses are neither taught nor encouraged to think critically about what they do. The situation can be improved if senior nurses make a positive effort to foster an atmosphere of enquiry, report research findings in a language all can understand, and encourage fellow nurses in the pursuit of knowledge.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Badger
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000451:nursing*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*