Clinical

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.

A comparison of survey methods in studies of the nurse workforce

Aim To compare and contrast postal and internet surveys in studies of nurse...

Enabling research cultures in nursing: insights from a multidisciplinary group of...

Aim To identify characteristics of enabling and disabling research cultures.

The use of focused ethnography in nursing research

Aim To provide an overview of the relevance and strengths of focused ethnography in...

Rigour in qualitative case-study research

Aim To provide examples of a qualitative multiple case study to illustrate the specific...

How case-study research can help to explain implementation of the nurse practitioner...

Aim To discuss how case-study research was undertaken to explain the implementation...

To what extent can people with communication difficulties contribute to health research?

Aim To present an approach to involving people with communication disorders in...

From Darwin to constructivism: the evolution of grounded theory

Aim To explore the evolution of grounded theory and equip the reader with a greater...

Using grounded theory to create a substantive theory of promoting schoolchildren’s...

Aim To discuss the creation of a substantive theory using grounded theory. This...

An introduction to Q methodology

Aim To explain Q methodology, an untraditional approach to nursing research, by...

Conducting research into hidden or hard-to-reach populations

Aim To explore the problems involved in conducting research with populations that...

Use of reflexivity in a mixed-methods study

Aim To present a novice researcher’s use of a reflective research diary in the...

How to develop a patient and carer advisory group in stroke care research

Aim The aim of this paper is to inform and advise researchers on the practical...

Development of an appraisal tool to evaluate strength of an instrument or outcome...

Aim To devise a framework to enable the grading of the psychometric strength of...

Research approaches related to phenomenology: negotiating a complex landscape

Aim To provide a comprehensive overview of the many research approaches related to...

The ‘auto/biographical’ method and its potential to contribute to nursing research

Aim To discuss the potential contribution of ‘auto/ biography’ to nursing research...

Linking aims, paradigm and method in nursing research

Aim To explore the use of paradigms as ontological and philosophical guides for...

Methodological triangulation: an approach to understanding data

Aim To describe the use of methodological triangulation in a study of how people...

Pyschometric testing of the Family Impact of Pain Scale using a sample of families in...

Aim To test the psychometric properties of the Family Impact of Pain Scale (FIPS)...

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