title: The emergence of a culture that promotes evidence based clinical decision making within an acute care setting.
abstract: Nursing research programs within acute care hospitals are essential to the development and integration of nursing knowledge, difficult to implement and rarely evaluated. The purpose of this paper is three fold: (1) to describe the development, structures, and processes of a nursing research program within an acute care teaching hospital and (2) to describe selected evaluation outcomes and (3) to discuss future directions.
authors.affiliation: Queen's University, School of Nursing.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tranmer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Coulson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Holtom
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lively
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maloney
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*