Evidence-based Nursing Practice, Part 1:

Abstract

This first article in a two-part series describes a collaboration between healthcare and academic organizations that supports evidence-based nursing practice. The multifaceted activities resulting from this collaboration include an annual research and research utilization conference, a series of research roundtables, talks with nurse authors, and a website. Maintaining such a sustained collaboration encourages more rapid dissemination of research findings into practice, enriching nursing practice, and ultimately benefiting patient outcomes.

Evidence-based nursing management: Challenges and facilitators

“…As it is the responsibility of both nurse researchers and nurse practitioners to ensure research utilization, hospitaluniversity collaboration projects are especially crucial for eliminating barriers regarding the use of evidence in nursing management decisions [30,31] . These cooperatively conducted studies will also facilitate building an evidence-based organizational culture.…”

Academic-Practice Partnerships in Practice Research

“…The most valued outcome of the collaboration was felt to be the pursuit of research to support clinical practice. Another nursing academic-practice partnership resulted in an annual research and research utilization conference, a series of research roundtables, talks with nurse authors and a Website (Caramanica, Maljanian, McDonald, Taylor, MacRae and Beland 2002). It was felt that the sustained collaboration encouraged more rapid dissemination of research findings into practice, enriching nursing practice and ultimately benefiting patient outcomes.…”