The overall aims of this study were to identify geriatric hospital nurses' perceived barriers to research utilization and its relationship to perceived empowerment. The specific aims were to identify (a) demographic and research-related characteristics, (b) the rank order of the perceived barriers to RU in nursing practice, (c) the level of perceived empowerment, and (d) predictors of the perception of barriers to RU of RNs working in geriatric hospitals.
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