title: Can nurses take an accurate blood pressure?
abstract: It is over 20 years since the Briggs (1971) report extolled the virtues of nursing becoming a research-based profession. However, despite progress having been made towards achieving a research base, studies all too rarely inform nursing practice. This article offers a number of explanations for this failure and demonstrates the benefits of research by examining nurses' knowledge of the factors that are important in taking an accurate blood pressure reading.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nolan
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000451:nursing*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research