Aline - in my experience, and working at a number of universities in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, there has been a consistence trend that most nurses (especially at the undergraduate level) are inadequately prepared for both understanding and conducting research in clinical practice and for pursuing research careers. The biggest hope is that students are at least 'consumers' of research, whereby they don't conduct research, but they know how to critically access it and appraise it for quality.

I supervise many Higher Degree students and they often report that they are ill-prepared for research compared to their other health professional colleagues. It's probably fair to say that most nurse researchers, either as an intended career trajectory or otherwise, do so via higher education and the academic setting. Many conduct single research projects purely for the purpose of attaining an Honours, Masters or PhD degree. These qualifications are designed to 'train' students in starting their research careers but, for many, it is the end of their research journeys.

I agree with Dean on this submission. I think it's an issue more of the understanding of the essence of research in nursing. Many people go into higher degree by research purposely to conduct a research for a degree. During my first undergraduate degree in Ghana, we had a unit ''Research methods'' which enlightened us on the various processes involved in Basic research. We were made to conduct independent research ( I have uploaded mine on research gate) which broadened my understanding of the research process. Also, in theory, we as a profession believe in the essence of research to enhance evidence based but there is no much drive and support. I have tried to understand in the past few months what actually entails 'Nurse Researcher' career and still reading around it.

The research area is not forgotten in nursing studies. In Sweden they have to write a systematic literature review before they get their competence. When they specialize, for example in psychiatry, they are subject to an area named: Research, Development, and Training. I attach our paper:

I am glad to add that we are starting off our own nursing research for SPT and impacts on women here, first ever to be conducted by nurses from the school of nursing in our country.

This research is still in the pipeline and led by our Deputy Director here at the Nursing school. We even have Nursing research in our curriculum and its where our student nurses are encouraged to be proactive in once they graduate.

During our Post grad cert in Public Health Nursing program, we were taught and exposed to conduction of mini researches where with limited experience and knowledge I did a qualitative research on Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors (Hepatitis B where we have a high prevalence on) and so happy to see that a Hepatitis B Program and section has been established not from the mini research findings I came up with a decade ago but from the Ministry's initiative, but it's where I thought well that mini research worth being done despite its irrelevance to the initiation of the Hepatitis B Program by the Ministry.

I am even with other nurses who have seen research as an important role we nurses must be part of and I assure every nurse that it's an interesting field of activity to explore, not only to explore but to be able to make a change toward better health for our community and country at large and to have a voice in leading for this change!

Here in the Netherlands it appears to be the same as previous contributors already stated: research by student nurses is mainly done to get a degree but after that they do not tend to do any research what so ever. I think it's important to at least be able to understand the researchprocess as well as knowing your way in finding qualitative good evidence regarding relevant issues.