Academic and Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions and Experiences on Academic-Practice Partnership in Evidence-Based Practice: An Interpretive Description

Table 2

Themes and subthemes generated in this study.

Themes	Subthemes
(1) Necessities of academic-practice partnership in promoting EBP	(1.1) Complementary competencies for partnership
	(1.2) Complementary resources for partnership
(2) Modes of academic-practice partnership in EBP	(2.1) Various academic-practice partnerships
	(2.2) Superficial academic-practice partnerships
(3) Challenges of academic-practice partnership in EBP	(3.1) Lack of supportive policies
	(3.2) Limited training in EBP
	(3.3) Invisible hierarchy between academics and clinicians
	(3.4) Insufficient attention to clinical nursing practice
	(3.5) Lack of interactive communication
	(3.6) Nonmutual needs on specific steps of EBP
	(3.7) Lack of theoretical guidance on collaboration
(4) Benefits of academic-practice partnership in EBP	(4.1) Improving competencies in EBP and collaboration
	(4.2) Promoting resource integration
	(4.3) Promoting EBP
	(4.4) Bridging research-education-practice gaps