Bridging the research-practice gap has been a focus of concern for nursing
and other health care disciplines. The challenge in linking research and pr
actice is for practitioners to use consistently the best available evidence
in their clinical practice and for researchers to engage in clinically rel
evant research that provides practitioners with the evidence to do so. The
authors of this article advocate that blending Clinical Quality Improvement
(CQI) strategies with research methodology is a means of bridging the rese
arch-practice gap. The process of blending Cel strategies and nursing resea
rch is described in this article.