The presence of employment and other personal demands many times, does not offer the time for you to think - to think about nursing research and how it is related to your professional life. Nursing research may even be one of those competing demands that you want to have time for, and yet you do not have time for, as you juggle all that you have to do in your work day. Well, this happens to all of us - no matter what work we do. My day job is that of a business owner of a 27