Owusu Lydia B, Scheepers Nicholin, Tenza Immaculate S
School of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
School of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Nurse Educ Today. 2025 Feb;145:106476. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106476. Epub 2024 Nov 14.
Research utilization is crucial for enhancing nursing and midwifery practice by integrating evidence-based interventions. For effective research utilization, nursing and midwifery education, spearheaded by nurse educators, is required to prepare nurses and midwives for it. However, there is a lack of exploration into the preparation of clinical nurses and midwives for research utilization.
This study explored nurse educators' preparation of clinical nurses and midwives for research utilization in practice.
Qualitative descriptive design.
Kumasi, Ghana.
Purposive and snowball sampling were used to select 33 nurse educators from one private university, one public university, and one nursing and midwifery training college.
Six focus group discussions were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide. Recorded data were transcribed and thematically analyzed and themes were developed related to clinical nurses' and midwives' preparation for research utilization.
Three themes emerged from the analyzed data: Preparation of nursing and midwifery students for research utilization; barriers in incorporating research utilization in nursing and midwifery education; and strategies to enhance research utilization in nursing and midwifery education. Nurses and midwives are not adequately prepared for research utilization during their nursing and midwifery education.
The study revealed significant gaps in nurse educators' preparation of clinical nurses and midwives for research utilization in Ghana. These findings highlight the urgent need for curriculum review to include research use and enhancing the research capacity of educators. Also, the gaps in nursing and midwifery education identified imply that clinical nurses and midwives require training for research utilization in practice.
研究应用对于通过整合循证干预措施来提升护理和助产实践至关重要。为实现有效的研究应用，需要以护士教育工作者为首的护理和助产教育，使护士和助产士为此做好准备。然而，对于临床护士和助产士在研究应用方面的准备情况缺乏探索。
本研究探讨了护士教育工作者为临床护士和助产士在实践中进行研究应用所做的准备。
质性描述性设计。
加纳库马西。
采用目的抽样和滚雪球抽样的方法，从一所私立大学、一所公立大学和一所护理与助产培训学院中选取了33名护士教育工作者。
使用半结构化访谈指南进行了六次焦点小组讨论。对记录的数据进行转录，并进行主题分析，形成了与临床护士和助产士在研究应用方面的准备相关的主题。
分析数据得出了三个主题：护理和助产专业学生在研究应用方面的准备；将研究应用纳入护理和助产教育中的障碍；以及提高护理和助产教育中研究应用的策略。护士和助产士在护理和助产教育期间，在研究应用方面没有得到充分的准备。
该研究揭示了加纳护士教育工作者在为临床护士和助产士进行研究应用方面的显著差距。这些发现凸显了迫切需要对课程进行审查，以纳入研究应用并提高教育工作者的研究能力。此外，所发现的护理和助产教育中的差距意味着临床护士和助产士在实践中需要接受研究应用方面的培训。
