LMOST AS LONG as nursing research has A existed, there have been demands for the research to be more applicable to the practice of the clinician. Although considerable literature attention has been paid to this issue and clinically focused journals have an increased percentage of research articles in each issue, little progress has been made in making the presentation of research more relevant to the clinician. In the last column, Funk and Tornquist (1992) provided clinicians with some assistance in interpreting research presentations, concluding with the note that a research presentation needs to be an interactive process between the presenter and the audience. Rather than just making a trite or cliche comment about the need for research presentations being interactive, these authors and Champagne and Wiese have “put their money where their mouth is” and created a series of research conferences which truly are clinicianfriendly. Based on the premise that research conferences have fallen short of the clinically relevant mark because they are traditionally too broad in the topics presented, presented in highly scientific language, and directed more at researchers than clinicians, the Research Utilization Project was created (Funk, Tornquist, & Champagne, 1989a; 1989b). Funded initially by the National Center for Nursing Research and now by the Division of Nursing, four Research Utilization conferences have been held since 1988, which have been designed to address such clinically relevant topics as: Comfort-Managing Pain, Fatigue and Nausea; Recovery-Improving Mobility, Rest and Nutrition; Elder Care-Managing
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Jan 1, 1993
Michael Wilson 
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