Action research in nursing

The present work is of theoretical character and its basic aim is to demonstrate the essence of the action research, analysed from the point of view of the theoretical and practical nursing. Indirectly, the assumption is to show the possibilities of influencing the quality of nursing care through the purposeful and systematic reference to this strategy. Available nursing publications in English stress that the action research (as applied research) is a strategy adopted by both theoreticians and practitioners. It is a way to seek solutions to actual problems that appeared while the professional tasks were carried out. The problem is solved immediately where it originated, mainly by the practitioners who can access the knowledge and experience of the theoreticians (researchers). The practitioners approach the theoreticians to take up a specific research procedure in order to determine the essence of the difficulty they have come across in their work with the subject of care, its causes and the chances of its elimination or possible reduction by using the capacities the theoreticians (researchers) have at their disposal. This requires implementation of certain methods, used to gather information about the problem as well as to process it.