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.
Formulating a web-based educational needs assessment questionnaire from healthcare...
The NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Managed Clinical Network (MCN) for Coronary...
A guide to discourse analysis
Discourse analysis (DA) is becoming an increasingly popular research strategy for...
The trustworthiness of case study methodology
Case study research is gaining increasing credibility as a suitable research...
Using the consensus development conference method in healthcare research
Consensus methods have been used in health research for many years, although it has...
Critical, post-structural, interpretive interactionism: an update on Denzin’s...
Many years of practice as critical care nurses indicated to us that doctors, nurses...
Systematic review – a method for nursing research
The continuous growth of research knowledge and the demands for evidence-based...
Research philosophy and Socrates: rediscovering the birth of phenomenology
The number of phenomenological studies published in nursing journals is rising,...
Doing things differently: advantages and disadvantages of web questionnaires
The use of questionnaires as a method of data collection in research is well...
Clinical and research databases in healthcare research
This paper reports on the experiences of two nurse researchers sampling from...
Sampling rare populations
There has long been an acceptance among academics and policy-makers that rare...
Quantitative and qualitative research data and their relevance to policy and practice
Crotty (2003) suggests that when taking into account human knowledge and the status...
Methodological challenges of researching in the care home sector
There is a developing body of research about minority ethnic elders in the UK (...
Evidence-based nursing practice: what US nurse executives really think
Health care is undergoing rapid changes, and outcomes drive processes. While the...
Establishing truthfulness, consistency and transferability
Public anxiety is aroused when the term ‘psychopath’ appears in the media,...
Conference presentations: a guide to writing the abstract
Conference presentations have been acknowledged as a potentially effective strategy...
The under-used resource of historical research
A Complete System of Nursing (Ashdown 1934) describes the strongly held view of the...
Why do nursing students who consider leaving stay on their courses?
Nurse education has changed radically since its inception. The changes reflect a...
‘Dipping our toes in the research pool’: novice researchers in a collaborative project
Research capacity has been described as ‘a general term for a process of individual...