Roles and functions in clinical care for registered nurses with a PhD-A systematic literature review.

Background: Nurses are responsible for nursing care and their expertise is crucial for quality of care. One factor important to successful delivery of evidence-based care is availability of staff with the expertise to support their colleagues in this endeavour. RN/PhDs versed in scientific research with a thorough knowledge of their disciplines have the potential to help narrow the gap between theory and practice.

Is It Possible for Registered Nurses and Physicians to Combine Research and Clinical Work to Facilitate Evidence-Based Practice?

Background: Evidence-based patient care requires clinicians to make decisions based on the best available evidence and researchers to provide new scientific knowledge. Clinician-scientists (i.e.

Nursing management matters for registered nurses with a PhD working in clinical practice.

Aim: To investigate what registered nurses (RNs) with a PhD working in clinical practice experience in terms of their role, function and work context.

Background: Previous studies have shown that RNs with a graduate degree contribute to better and safer care for patients. However, little is known about what further academic schooling of RNs, at PhD level, means for clinical practice.

Factors of importance for work satisfaction among nurses in a university hospital in Sweden.

The shortage of registered nurses in the healthcare sector is a problem in most countries. Swedish nurses tend to leave or seek new positions. However, few Swedish studies have addressed questions regarding what factors are of importance for nurses to perceive work satisfaction although satisfied nurses are linked to many positive organizational outcomes, e.

Predictors of nurses' perceptions of barriers to research utilization.

Aim: To identify predictors of nurses' self-reported barriers to using research findings in clinical practice.

Background: Several studies have shown that nurses perceive barriers to research utilization but to our knowledge predictors of nurses perceptions of barriers to research utilization have not been identified before.

Methods: Three questionnaires were answered by 833 nurses: the Barriers Scale, the Quality Work Competence questionnaire and a questionnaire including questions on professional issues.

Why do nurses at a university hospital want to quit their jobs?

The aim of the study was to investigate to what extent the registered nurses at a university hospital intend to quit their present jobs and the reasons for this. A total of 833 nurses at a university hospital responded to two mailed, work-environment questionnaires (Quality Work Competence and Huddinge University Hospital Model Questionnaire). About 54% (n = 449) intended to quit and 35% (n = 155) had already taken steps to do so.