title: An ethnographic study of nurses' experience with nursing research and its integration in practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report from a study aimed at illuminating how French Registered Nurses experience and engage in nursing research in clinical practice.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Nursing research in France is mainly conducted by nurses working at clinical research units rather than by dedicated nurse researchers. Education, i.e. advanced degrees, in the field of nursing research is still in its infancy and not yet consistent with the international context. Outside France, the general perception is that nursing research is a unified part of professional nursing. Consequently, in-depth knowledge about how nurses in a French clinical context might experience and engage in nursing research is still lacking.
  
  
  METHODS
  The design of this study was influenced by an ethnographic approach as described by the French anthropologists Beaud and Weber.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data, participatory observations, field notes and interviews (n = 6) were collected in a teaching hospital between April-August 2012. The field consisted of a wound-care unit and clinical research units. Collected data were analysed based on Beaud and Weber's description of analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three beliefs were identified: being a unified part of a research team, being an integral part of 'crosswise - across' activities and being part of research activities.
  Commitment to nursing research was strengthened by patient-related issues. Based on this context, nursing research would likely benefit from the support of a naturalized reciprocity between clinical practice and research.
authors.affiliation: Human and Social Science Department, Chair - Health Promotion, French School of Public Health (EHESP), Rennes, France.|Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Pierre Louis School of Public Health (ED 393), Paris, France.|Department of Epidemiology, Information Systems, and Modelling (UMR-S 707), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Cécile Marie
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dupin
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, Nature and Technical Science, Department of Health Science, Nursing, Karlstad University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Gunilla
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Borglin
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Department, French School of Public Health (EHESP), Paris, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Debout
authors.affiliation: Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Pierre Louis School of Public Health (ED 393), Paris, France.|Department of Epidemiology, Information Systems, and Modelling (UMR-S 707), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rothan-Tondeur
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: culture; evidence-based practice; field notes; interviews; nurse; participant observations; qualitative research.