Nurses' wishes, knowledge, attitudes and perceived barriers on implementing research findings into practice among graduate nurses in Austria

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1744-1756

  Breimaier, Helga E ^a   Halfens, Ruud J G ^b,c   Lohrmann, Christa ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes towards nursing research; Barriers to research utilisation; Cross sectional survey; Nurses' wishes; Research utilisation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AUSTRIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSES;

EID: 79955784395     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03491.x     Document Type: Article

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