A major influence on whether research findings are utilized or not must be the incentive offered to nurses to make the effort to become research minded. The writer contends that nursing profession may be giving only up service support to the value of research in nursing, if it is not actively creating opportunities for clinical nurses to become involved in further education and research nor offering positive recognition for nurses who are research literate and implementing findings. Perhaps, a positive move in this direction is to make knowledge of relevant research a key criterion in the appointment of ward sister or in the annual appraisal of nurse managers. In addition health service must support and provide a receptive clinical environment that is amenable to change, by creating a career structure, which formally recognizes the role of research and its relevance.