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Nursing research in intensive care. What are the paths in the present?

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Published
7 June 2022
Section
Original Articles
DOI
10.4081/scenario.2022.514
Pages
24-25

Abstract

In 1983, in an editorial in the journal Heart & Lung, Lewandowski and Kositsky, stated, Research is vital for nursing practice.1 In critical area settings, we have to decide whether we still believe in it or not. This may sound like a provocation, but in fact it is not, as it is extremely complex to find the funds to devote to this scientific activity. The health of critical care nursing research, particularly in Italy, is – at least for the most part –uncertain...

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