Evaluation of Steps Towards Recovery – attitudes towards and experiences of a recovery-oriented nursing programme as an approach to evidence-based nursing practice in psychiatric in-patient care

Integrating results from nursing research into daily nursing work is described as challenging in psychiatric in-patient care. There is a need to illuminate the gap between theory and practice to achieve evidence-based nursing. Nurses' professional role and responsibility for the development and improvement of nursing are crucial in doing so and must be addressed in nursing education, by nurses themselves, as well as by managers at all levels of health care.