Implementing Research In Clinical Practice

Researching in nursing plays a vital role in clinical practice and providing patients with evidence based care. While completing the research for this course it has changed my clinical practice in multiple ways. In the beginning of the term, this author understood that research played a crucial role in clinical practice. However, at the completion of the term this author has a better understanding of the work that is involved in implementing research into practice. As stated in Brown’s (2014) article, it can take up to seventeen years to implement research into practice. There is multiple steps involved and is a task that should not be taken alone, there should be a team involved in the process of getting research translated into practice. The relationship that is between research and clinical practice is a vital relationship in the nursing field.
Having a relationship between research and clinical practice allows the nurses and other health care workers to provide the patients with evidence based care. Evidence based care is when the patient receives the most up to date care that has been shown in other research to benefit the patient and cause minimal to no harm. Research needs to be involved in clinical practice to ensure that the care or treatment that the patient is receiving is accurate and appropriate for the