title: The barriers to the application of the research findings from the nurses' perspective: A case study in a teaching hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The application of the nursing research findings is one of the most important indicators of development in the nursing profession, which leads to providing efficient and effective patient care and improving the quality of nursing care. According the result of some studies, transferring the evidence-based findings to the nurses' practice and education in the world has been slow and sometimes unsuccessful. This study aimed to investigate the most important barriers to the application of research findings from the nurses' perspective.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional study conducted on a sample of 210 nurses in a teaching hospital in Tehran in 2013. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire consisted of two parts, including items about nurses' demographic characteristics and 30 items to identify the most important barriers to the application of research findings from the studied nurses' perspective.
  
  
  RESULTS
  "The lack of sufficient time for reading the studies," "the lack of sufficient time to implement the new ideas," "the lack of adequate facilities to implement the ideas," "nurses' little interest in conducting studies," and "the lack of authority to change the methods and patterns of care" with, respectively, 85%, 84.6%, 83.8%, 83.4%, and 80.5% agreement with the existence of barriers were the most barriers to application of research findings from the studied nurses' perspective.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The lack of time was the most important barrier to the use of research findings from the perspective of studied nurses. Therefore, some effective strategies should be used by hospital managers and health policy makers to overcome this barrier. Some of these strategies can be employing new personnel and hiring skilled and efficient human resources in order to decrease the workload of nurses, organizing the nurses' work shifts, providing right balance between patients and nurses in the wards, etc.
authors: Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Mohammadkarim
authors: M
authors: Bahadori
authors: Health Services Management Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Students Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Mehdi
authors: M
authors: Raadabadi
authors: Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Ramin
authors: R
authors: Ravangard
authors: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors: Behzad
authors: B
authors: Mahaki
keywords: Barriers; Iran; nursing; research utilization