Current Status for Evidence-based Nursing in the Hospitals and Roles of the Korean Society of Evidence-Based Nursing

Exploring Nursing Research Culture in Clinical Practice: Qualitative Ethnographic Study

“…Ethnography acknowledges that the required number of research participants varies depending on the cultural context [ 23 ]. Drawing from previous qualitative research [ 22 ] that focused on similar research topics and participants, a blend of purposive and snowball sampling strategies was used to recruit nurses engaged in nursing research in a hospital. The sample comprised 5 staff nurses and 1 nurse unit manager affiliated with the medical-surgical unit of a Korean tertiary hospital.…”

“…The structure and content of the interview questions and guidelines were informed by previous research on clinical nursing research in Korea [ 14 , 21 , 22 , 26 ] and were aligned with Spradley’s [ 24 ] ethnographic interview approach. Following the outlined interview guide ( Multimedia Appendix 2 ), the interviews were conducted individually and typically lasted between 35 and 50 minutes, with the average duration being 40 minutes.…”

“…In South Korea, nursing research has been active since the 1980s [ 16 ], with clinical nursing research primarily conducted at the tertiary hospital level [ 14 , 17 - 19 ]. Studies conducted in Korea have explored facilitators and barriers to nursing research in clinical practice, including clinical nurses’ knowledge and skills, acknowledgment of the importance of nursing research, organizational support, resource and facility constraints, time limitations, lack of leadership interest, challenges in statistical analysis, and the generalization of research results [ 14 , 20 - 22 ]. Although these studies have identified factors influencing the research performance of clinical nurses, the specific nature of the clinical nursing research culture in Korea remains largely unexplored.…”