Doing clinical research: The challenges and benefits

Title
Doing clinical research: The challenges and benefits
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Higgins, Isabel
Parker, Vicki Therese
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0834-9528
Email: vparker3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:vparker3
Keatinge, Diana
Giles, Michelle
Winskill, Rhonda
Guest, Eileen
Kepreotes, Elizabeth
Phelan, Caroline
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
eContent Management Pty Ltd
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.5172/conu.2010.35.2.171
UNE publication id
une:7567
Abstract
The need for research in practice is well documented within nursing and other health care disciplines. This acceptance is predicated on the belief that clinically applied research will inform and improve practice and health service delivery resulting in better outcomes for consumers and their families. Nurses, however, find doing clinical research challenging. This paper describes nurses' experiences of doing clinical research. The main challenges of doing clinical research arise from a culture that prioritises practice where nursing work is core business and there is the need to address immediate and short term goals. There are also problems associated with the use of research language amongst clinical nurses and ambiguity in relation to research role expectations. Lack of support and resources for doing research along with keeping up the momentum for a research project also pose significant challenges. The benefits of doing clinical nursing research include experiential learning that has the potential to lead to practice change and improved patient outcomes that are evidence based.
Link
Citation
Contemporary Nurse, 35(2), p. 171-181
ISSN
1839-3535
1037-6178
Start page
171
End page
181

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