Nurses’ Barriers to Research Utilization
Abstract
Objectives: Evidence-based
practice (EBP) is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing
care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most
current, relevant research available on the topic. EBP can significantly affect
mortality and morbidity rates and play an important role in the reduction of
geographic differences. Ten/fifteen years ago in our country, “Health
Transition Project” was launched to improve the quality of health care. Thus it
should be investigated to better understand nurses’ current perceived barriers
to research utilization. This study aim to investigate barriers of research
utilization among nurses at a public hospital and radical changes of its health
care system.
Materials and Methods: This study
was planned as a descriptive research. This study was conducted between the
dates of February-May 2018 at a Public Hospital in Turkey. All participant who
volunteered to participate in the survey and who completed fully form were
evaluated. Simple random sampling method was used. Data were collected using a
face-to-face interview technique with the questionnaire developed by the
researchers and Barriers to Research Utilization Scale Turkish version. The
BARRIER scale developed by Funk consists of 29 items and four subgroups. These
four factors were labeled nurse, organization, innovation and communication. As
obtained the scale score increases obstacle is increasing.
Results: A total of 350 nurses
participated in this survey. Most of participants were undergraduate. On
average, they had been employed in the nursing profession for 8.6 years (range
1-30 years). A large part of the nurses was not following the publications
related to the profession (75.15%) and believed that the practical changes
would provide minimal benefit (73.42%). For the organizational factors, the biggest
barriers reported were “physicians will not cooperate with implementation” (76.85%).
For the innovation factors the biggest barriers determined were “the nurse is
uncertain whether to believe the results of the research (72.57%). For the
communication factors, the biggest barriers reported were “literature is not
compiled in one place” (66.85%).
Conclusion: Nurses have serious
barriers to using research results in clinics. These barriers range from
individual characteristics of nurses to organizational factors. Therefore,
focusing only on nurses is not the right approach in solving the problem. The
only solution is to ensure secular, rational and scientific education for all
individuals from the early childhood. Only in this way can both individual and
from management organizational barriers arising can be overcome.
Keywords
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Eylül 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
13 Mart 2019
Kabul Tarihi
11 Eylül 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 19 Sayı: 3