Tag Archives: personal factors related to evidence use

Facilitators of Research Use in Practice: Narrowing the Research-Practice Gap

This month’s posts have all been about the existence and persistence of the research-practice gap in nursing — that is, the gap between the publication or dissemination of research and the use of those findings in practice. In this post, I’ll discuss some of the ways that the research-practice gap

Barriers to Research Use in Practice: Persistence of the Research-Practice Gap

In a previous post, I talked about the research-practice gap, also known as the evidence-practice gap. This phenomenon is not a figment of our past but is still a problem struggled with today (Agbedia, Okoronkwo, Onokayeigho, & Agbo, 2014; Curtis, Fry, Shaban, & Considine, 2016; Middlebrooks, Carter-Templeton, & Mund, 2016). Of course,