Despite the increasing quantity and improving quality of nursing researches, incorporating
research results into clinical practice remains a significant challenge. Aim: The study was aimed
to assess the barriers, facilitators and the nurses' attitude toward nursing research utilization.
Design: descriptive research design was used. Aconvenient sample of 172 nurses was selected
from medical, surgical and pediatric departments from Sohag University hospital in the period
from December 2015 to January 2016. An interviewing questionnaire sheet was used for data
collection which divided into four parts; part 1: socio-demographic data of nurses and their
experiences developed by the researchers, part 2: nurses' attitude toward nursing research
utilization tool developed by Edet, (2008) & Majid et al., (2011), part 3: barriers to nursing
research utilization tool developed by Funk et al., (1991), and facilitators nursing research
utilization tool developed by Hutchinson and Johnston, (2004). Results: All of the nurses were
female, and the mean age was 27.2+13.4 years. The nearly two thirds of them (65.7%) their
highest educational level were diploma. The majority of the nurse (90.1%) had positive attitude
toward nursing research utilization. The highest top barrier of research utilization reported by
62.2% of nurses was that nursing research written by English, followed by the nurse does not feel
capable of evaluating the quality of the research (53.5%), the greatest facilitator as opined by
64.2% of nurses was translating the articles into Arabic language. Conclusion: Despite the
majority of the nurse had positive attitude toward nursing research utilization, there are many
barriers impede the nurse to integrate the research into practice. Recommendation: Translating
the nursing research finding, conclusions and recommendations into Arabic language to be easy
understandable to nurses and increasing time available for reviewing and implementing the
research finding.