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Staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing research: a descriptive survey
Author(s) -
Bostrom Andrea C.,
Malnight Margaret,
MacDougall John,
Hargis Dianna
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01480.x
Subject(s) - nursing , descriptive research , nursing research , descriptive statistics , nursing staff , psychology , survey research , medicine , family medicine , applied psychology , sociology , social science , statistics , mathematics
Staff nurse involvement in clinical nursing research is dependent on the attitudes nurses hold toward research. An exploration of these attitudes was undertaken in a 464‐bed midwestern teaching hospital as it developed its nursing research procedures. A questionnaire was developed which incorporated the Boothe Attitudes on Nursing Research Scale. All registered nurses ( n = 925) at the facility were surveyed with a response rate of 77.8% ( n = 720). Findings indicated that many nurses were interested in research and believed that the institution would support research activities and the implementation of research findings. Some deterrences to conducting research included: time, lack of knowledge, and the nurses's perception of the supervisory support and the research support services.