Nurse Educator's Perception of Personal Activities in Knowledge Transfer Derived From Nursing Researches Across Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences

Despite the growing importance of knowledge in the presentage, several studies indicate that there are a great gap between knowledge productionand its use, which is more evident in nursing profession. Meanwhile there is no evidenceof the amount of individual efforts in the transfer of knowledge derived from nursingresearch to enhance the quality and quantity of it. Thus the present study aims to describe nurse educators’ perception of personal activities in knowledge transfer derived from nursing researches across Iranian universities of medical sciences. Descriptive study accomplished with sampling of 279 nurseeducators working of Medical Science universities of Iran. The information regarding theknowledge transfer was gathered by using Knott & Wildavsky (1980) Landry et al (2001,2003) tool. Data were analyzed by SPSS. As the nurse educators mentioned their personal knowledge transferperformance was poor; among them only “lectures or presentation of research results”was normal and "sending the results of research, meeting of working groups, consultingservices, collaboration to develop products and services, participation in businessesactivities and promotion of research results" were reported weak. Results of this study indicate that individual performance of nursingknowledge transfer is weak. Nurse educators should not be confined merely to present the results in seminars or congresses but to use other activities such as passing messages to addresses, too.