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Learning Objective 1: gain an understanding or barriers to implementing research from an Australian nursing context
Learning Objective 2: gain an understanding of solutions or strategies to utilise research findings within their work.
Change management practices recommend the used of communication to effect change and the basis of any communication is a shared language: that is, a language that is shared and understood by all within a given context, the context in this case being nursing research. Language is a complex, learned and culturally determined behaviour that reflects and reifies the dominant discourse. The issue for “normal” nurses is that the language of research does not fit within current nursing culture and therefore is simply “not understood” with ease.
It may also be asserted that language as a powerful discursive tool perpetuates the difference between nurse academics and nurses who have chosen to remain at the bedside. Thus, the vocabulary of research is suspended between the objective spheres of nursing academia and subjective sides of nursing in such a manner that the language of nursing research displays an intrinsic ambiguity. Thus, the knowledge exchange required to apply research findings in the clinical setting is hindered.
This paper depicts the responses given by nurses when asked “what barriers prevent you from understanding and using research findings in your work?” and concludes by offering solutions to barriers identified. In short, nurses identified that a common user friendly language is required to ensure that research is applied in the clinical setting by “normal” “bedside” nurses.