NURSING RESEARCH DIRECTION IN IRAN, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Research and knowledge production empowers nursing profession in anticipating
and facing with challenges. Using the research results, knowledge is applied in the clinical settings and
improves the quality of the services. Undoubtedly, the efficiency and effectiveness of the research
depends on meeting the needs and expectations of the community. The aim of this study is to identify
Nursing Research Direction and challenges and suggested solutions to address them.
Materials & Methods: The present study is an integrative review and conducted based on the Broome
method. Articles that related to the purpose of this study, being written in English or Persian and the full
text of them were accessible, entered into research. Different data bases such as ProQuest, Ovid,
PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Magiran and SID were applied for collecting articles by using
a wide range of keywords such as nursing, research, research priorities, research direction and
challenges. Search without time limit was made until 2017. After carefully assessing the title, summary
and full text, a large number of articles have been dropped due to different titles and objectives,
inappropriate summary or content. Ultimately, 34 articles were included. Data were analyzed based on
Broom's method.
Results: The results of these studies indicated several challenges regarding the nursing research
consisted of five main themes including illogical orientation of researches, low quality of research
evidences, poor knowledge translation, weakness of team work and interdisciplinary research activities
and challenges of community - based nursing care.
Conclusion: It is expected that by drawing the nursing research challenges and providing a general
guide to nursing planners and policymakers, we can take small steps forward strengthening and
developing strategies for effective nursing research management and Optimal exploitation of knowledge
gained from researches. In order to better understand the challenges of nursing researches and to
formulate strategic solutions, further studies are recommended with qualitative approaches