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Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.

How to code gerunds in constructivist grounded theory research: an example

How to code gerunds in constructivist grounded theory research

Recognising gerunds in qualitative data can be confusing for novice researchers

Using the principles of practice development to address challenges in recruitment and data collection when face-to-face methods are unavailable

Challenges in recruitment and data collection when face-to-face methods are unavailable

Practice development principles offer ways to engage with people for research if there are constraints

How the expert nursing role was used to facilitate the co-design of a patient interview study

Use of expert nursing role to facilitate co-design of a patient interview study

Nurse researchers should shift to participatory methods to identify patient-focused improvements

The permutation test: a simple way to test hypotheses

The permutation test: a simple way to test hypotheses

Permutation tests do not require the strict model assumptions of t-tests and can be robust alternatives

A novel research competency framework for clinical research nurses and midwives

A research competency framework for clinical research nurses and midwives

A project identified 15 core elements to these roles and the associated knowledge, skills and behaviours

Using social media to recruit research participants: a literature review

Using social media to recruit research participants: a literature review

Social media can save time and reduce costs while increasing access to hard-to-reach populations

Planning for research impact

Planning for research impact

An overview of strategies used in a study of a healthcare communication tool

Evaluating ethnically diverse patients’ perspectives of considering participation in renal clinical research

Ethnically diverse patients’ perspectives of participation in clinical research

Patients preferred a face-to-face approach and the expertise of the research team was crucial

Best practices in reporting analyses of questionnaires as objective rating scales of variable measures

How to report analyses of questionnaires as objective rating scales of variable measures

Applying best practice in advanced measurement techniques when using questionnaires

Using the making Visible the ImpaCT Of Research (VICTOR) questionnaire to evaluate the benefits of a fellowship programme for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Using the VICTOR questionnaire to evaluate the benefits of a fellowship programme

How to build research capacity and show the benefit of investing in training opportunities

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Involving patients and the public in nursing PhD projects: practical guidance, potential benefits and points to consider

Involving patients and public in nurse PhD projects: guidance, benefit, points to...

Nurse researchers should begin learning this important skill during training

Indigenising systematic reviews with a collaborative model of ‘training the trainers’

Indigenising systematic reviews with a collaborative model of ‘training the trainers’

How a systematic review course was adapted to suit Indian nurse educators and research scholars

The ecomap: a tool for extending understanding in hermeneutic phenomenological research

A study using ecomaps to show how parents of children with cancer were supported with...

Qualitative research interviewing: application and use of free association techniques

Researchers should keep in mind the contexts of research, clinical psychoanalysis and...

Scientific models for qualitative research: a textual thematic analysis coding system

A concluding paper on Empirical Test for Thematic Analysis (ETTA) as an approach to...

Gatekeepers in research: recruiting carers of people with chronic blood cancer

Reflexivity and feedback of supervisors, gatekeepers and PPI panels can help recruitment

The one-way ANOVA test explained

The methodology of the test as an example of an inferential statistical method

Scientific models generated through a textual thematic analysis coding system: part 1

Qualitative modelling creates semantic structure expressed via theme-code, content and...

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