Influence of communal and private folklore on bringing meaning to the experience of...
Aim To provide an overview of the relevance and strengths of using the literary...
13 Nov 2015
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.
Child and adolescent mental health nursing seen through a social constructionist lens
Aim To discuss the theoretical framework of social constructivism and justify its...
13 Nov 2015
Conceptual frameworks and terminology in doctoral nursing research
Aim To define conceptual frameworks and their inherent dichotomies, and integrate...
13 Nov 2015
The value of artefacts in stimulated-recall interviews
Aim To assess the use of artefacts in semi-structured, stimulated-recall interviews...
14 Sep 2015
The BLEED pilot study: determining the usability of a medical device before the...
Aim To discuss the methods of a study which will aim to determine the usability of...
14 Sep 2015
Using mixed methods when researching communities
Aim To argue for the use of mixed methods when researching communities.
...14 Sep 2015
Strategies to enhance recruitment of rural-dwelling older people into community-based...
Aim To describe strategies that can enhance the recruitment of rural-dwelling older...
14 Sep 2015
Legal, ethical and practical considerations in research involving nurses with dyslexia
Aim To discuss the legal, ethical and practical considerations in UK studies...
14 Sep 2015
Is ‘Dear colleague’ enough? Improving response rates in surveys of healthcare...
Aim To explain a strategy to improve response rates from healthcare professionals...
14 Sep 2015
An introduction to unique adequacy
Aim To introduce nurse and healthcare researchers to the ethnomethodological (EM)...
14 Jul 2015
Differentiating between descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research...
Aim To provide insight into how descriptive and interpretive phenomenological...
14 Jul 2015
Originality and the PhD: what is it and how can it be demonstrated?
Aim To explore the concept of originality in doctoral research and outline ways in which...
14 Jul 2015
Questioning the efficacy of ‘gold’ open access to published articles
Aim To question the efficacy of ‘gold’ open access to published articles. Background Open...
14 Jul 2015
Using a mixed-methods design to examine nurse practitioner integration in British...
Aim To discuss and provide examples of how mixed-methods research was used to...
14 Jul 2015
The multiple imputation method: a case study involving secondary data analysis
Aim To illustrate with the example of a secondary data analysis study the use of...
15 May 2015
Qualitative case study data analysis: an example from practice
Aim To illustrate an approach to data analysis in qualitative case study...
15 May 2015
Transforming the findings of narrative research into poetry
Aim To offer dramatic poetry as representing findings from narrative research that...
15 May 2015
Using unstructured diaries for primary data collection
Aim To give a reflective account of using unstructured handwritten diaries as a...
15 May 2015