Barriers to the implementation of research findings in practice

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Abstract
Despite the increase in nursing research activity and the development of nursing theory over the last 25 years, concern remains that nurses frequently fail to base their practice on the findings and recommendations of research. Writing almost ten years after the publication of research monographs by the Royal College of Nursing in the 1970s which identified ritualistic practice - practice based solely on experience and tradition and which has no sound research basis Hunt (1) reported that many of the practices identified in those studies were still being performed, despite an awareness on the part of the nurses performing them that there was no rationale underpinning them.

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