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Using Champions to Successfully Perform Nursing Home Research |
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 Vol XIX, Jul `06 According to Willson et al. (2004), whose research focuses on nursing research and is applicable to the nursing home setting:
At first, asking busy nurses to add nursing research to their clinical practice may be viewed as an unrealistic and overwhelming task, despite their best professional intentions and thepotential benefits research has in their clinical practice…
Willson P et al. Using the forces of magnetism to bridge nursing research and practice. JONA 2004; 34 (9): 393-4.
Competing demands, issues with short staffing, perceived monetary and time costs, and a reactive (vs. proactive) mentality in the nursing home are all barriers that recur, repeatedly, in this setting and combine to make research seem
unrealistic and overwhelming.
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