Research literacy: an essential prerequisite for knowledge-led practice.
Fitting to the theme of this first issue of Nurse Researcher, this article examines what the recently published Strategy for Research in Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ( 1 ) has to say about raising the level of research appreciation in nursing and improving nurses' skills in accessing and reading reports of research. If all of the Strategy's recommendations relevant to this and other areas were to be implemented, then there would be solid grounds for optimism that longstanding notions of nursing as a research-based profession might become, at last, something more concrete than mere rhetoric.
The Nursing Research Unit. University of Edinburgh, and Chair of the RCN Research Advisory Group.
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