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.
An investigation of factors that determine when men with erectile disorder present for...
This study by Sangan Sookdeb explored the factors that determine the time interval...
Through the looking glass: being a critical ethnographic researcher in a familiar...
This article draws on the primary author’s experiences of conducting a critical...
Nursing relationships in ethnographic research: what of rapport?
Julie McGarry examines some of the issues associated with relationships that...
Ethical considerations in phenomenological research
Wendy Walker examines some important ethical issues that researchers need to...
Lost in translation? Undertaking transcultural qualitative research
If nurses are to undertake rigorous transcultural research, they must take account...
Getting started with qualitative research: developing a research proposal
The aim of this article is to illustrate in detail important issues that research...
Ethnography and staying in your own nest
In a 2004 paper, Martin Johnson suggested that ‘too many of us study our own...
Focus groups in nursing research: an appropriate method or the latest fad?
The use of focus groups as a method of nursing research has increased substantially...
Focus groups in nursing research
The literature suggests that prior to the 1950s, focus groups were almost unknown...
Dilemmas of focus group recruitment and implementation: a pilot perspective
In this paper, Isis Lioba Howatson-Jones reviews some of the dilemmas experienced...
Typologies in nursing: a review of the literature
The generation and use of typologies is a familiar, but taken for granted, aspect...
The contextual researcher: celebrating ‘experiential alertness’ in grounded theory in...
In this paper, Stephan Kirby demonstrates and explores an approach to grounded...
Development of a self-rating scale of self-directed learning
In order to realise their full potential as learners, it is essential that students...
Interviewing people with terminal illness: practical and ethical issues
The material gathered can provide valuable insight but interviewing those in the...
How expert are the experts? An exploration of the concept of ‘expert’ within Delphi...
The use of the term ‘expert’ occurs widely in healthcare research, in the context...
Using and understanding factor analysis: the Brief Pain Inventory
Factor analysis is useful for examining relationships among large numbers of...
Exploration of nurses’ information environment
Elaine Ballard’s article focuses on health informatics, a field which has developed...
Presenting research to clinicians: strategies for writing about research findings
Research is of little value to clinical practice if the findings are not...