title: 'Nursing research culture' in the context of clinical nursing practice: addressing a conceptual problem.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report an analysis of the concept of nursing research culture in the context of clinical nursing practice.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Nursing research culture should be valued for its contribution to improving patient care and should be considered as a routine hospital activity. However, the demand for efficiency, nurses' barriers to research use and the lack of definition of the concept of nursing research culture make it difficult to establish.
  
  
  METHODS
  Concept analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected through a literature review in PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO during March 2016.
  
  
  METHODS
  Walker and Avant's eight-step framework for concept analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five defining attributes of nursing research culture in the context of clinical nursing practice were identified: strong monodisciplinary nursing professionalism, academic thinking and socialization, research use as a part of daily nursing practice, acceptance by colleagues and management and facilitation of resources from management and organization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the method of concept analysis has been criticized and heavily debated, the development of nursing research cultures based on the defining attributes and antecedents of the concept will be important to emphasize evidence-based clinical nursing care. Further research should support the development and the implementation of nursing research culture in clinical nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: Section of Nursing, Institute of Health, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Connie Bøttcher
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3158-3301
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Berthelsen
authors.affiliation: Zealand University Hospital, Region Zealand, Køge, Denmark.
authors.forename: Bibi
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hølge-Hazelton
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009736:Nursing Process; D015399:Nursing Research; D015279:Organizational Culture; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D000068616:Professionalism
keywords: Walker and Avant; clinical nursing practice; concept analysis; nurses; nursing research culture; research utilization