title: Identifying barriers to the application of evidence based practice in mental health nursing.
abstract: Although contemporary nursing literature urges clinicians to embrace the principles of evidence-based practice and utilise research to guide professional activity, this challenge has frequently gone unheeded by mental health nurses. Indeed the reality of merging research and practice is a complex process impeded by significant barriers. Examination of these barriers provides credible reasonfor mental health nurses' slow progress toward evidence-based nursing practice to date. However, exploration of these barriers also leads to the identification of strategies to overcome them, inevitably rendering the current situation untenable.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
authors.lastname: McCloughen Andrea
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing