Clinical nursing research: nurses' attitudes and activity

Abstract

Involvement and conduct of clinical nursing research is a desired professional behaviour of registered nurses and the degree of involvement is partly dependent on the attitude that nurses hold towards research. A survey methodology was used to explore the attitudes and activity levels of registered nurses employed within an acute metropolitan public hospital. Two hundred and sixty questionnaires were distributed in August 2000 to all registered nurses employed in clinical areas within a twenty-four hour period. One hundred and seventy eight questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of 68%. A key finding was that few nurses had been involved in nursing research and there was little..