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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.

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

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 decision-making

Qualitative research interviewing: application and use of free association

Qualitative research interviewing: application and use of free association techniques

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

Scientific models for qualitative research: a textual thematic analysis coding system – part 2

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 qualitative modelling

Gatekeepers in research: the experience of recruiting carers of people with chronic blood cancers

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 one-way ANOVA test explained

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

Scientific models for qualitative research: a textual thematic analysis coding system: part 1

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

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

Just one interview’: making visible the hidden workload entailed in qualitative research

Understanding workload is vital to ensure that timelines, recruitment targets and funding ...

Nurse researcher identity and reflexivity in interpretive phenomenological analysis

Guidance on how novice nurse researchers can navigate changes in identity

Managing missing and erroneous data in nurse staffing surveys

An approach to assessing and handling inconsistent data, with an example of survey results...

The challenges of recruiting and interviewing patients following critical illness

How best to recruit and interview participants in a virtual setting

How to structure Microsoft Excel documents for systematic reviews

The Excel method is efficient and free and can produce transparent and complete reports

Bayesian analysis for nurse and midwifery research

Statistical, practical and ethical benefits of the Bayesian approach

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