Nursing Research, Dissemination of Knowledge and its Potential Contribution to the Practice

ABSTRACT

Every day, nurses face dilemmas in clinical practice by having to make decisions about caring for patients, which can occur without up-to-date knowledge or sufficient resources. In previous reflections, I have exposed and commented on the need to move from research, particularly from research findings, to the practice in the different contexts of nursing work and of health sciences in general, exposing the gap that still remains between the generation of knowledge and its application in daily practice.(1,2) This gap, although in differential magnitude, is still present in the different scenarios in which nursing takes place, that is, in healthcare practice (hospital, outpatient, and community), as well as in teaching.