TY - JOUR T1 - Research utilisation and critical thinking among newly graduated nurses – predictors for research use: a quantitative cross-sectional study JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 73 LP - 73 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2011-100413 VL - 15 IS - 3 AU - Joanne Profetto-McGrath AU - Christy Raymond-Seniuk Y1 - 2012/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/15/3/73.abstract N2 - ■ This study underscores the importance of fostering new graduate nurses' critical thinking dispositions (CTD) as possible predictors of research use in practice.■ Emphasising new graduates' CTD in nursing education may also increase research use as defined in the Research Use Questionnaire (RUQ).■ Use of multivariate analysis in this study highlights a need for complex ways of examining predictors of research use.■ Further research to confirm possible predictors of research use is needed. There is a significant and growing interest in understanding how knowledge, and more specifically research evidence, is applied to nursing practice.1 ‘Research utilisation is, at its simplest, the use of research to guide practice, and is particularly concerned with the use of research evidence – … ER -