Researching research: a method for promoting positive attitudes.
It is widely agreed that nursing research needs to be more effectively taught and that new strategies are needed to involve nurses more intently in the research process, both as students and professionals. Two areas that appear to be in particular need of attention are the utilization of research findings in nursing practice and the development of positive attitudes toward research. This article describes a strategy designed to help nursing students over two hurdles--their initial unfamiliarity with the process of finding, evaluating, and applying research and their inhibitions toward the process--by getting them involved in doing research on research and actually presenting and publishing their own findings.