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.
The construction of context-mechanisms-outcomes in realistic evaluation
Aim To discuss the construction of context-mechanisms-outcomes (CMOs) developed as...
Reflecting on the use of photo elicitation with children
Aim To reflect on the use of photo elicitation as a data collection method when...
Blogs as a way to elicit feedback on research and engage stakeholders
Developing a national mentorship scheme to enhance the contribution of clinical...
Aim To provide a template for developing a national mentoring scheme to enhance the...
Engaging minorities in researching sensitive health topics by using a participatory...
Aim To report the use of a community participatory approach (PA) in a project...
Methodological tools for the collection and analysis of participant observation data...
Aim To give clarity to the analysis of participant observation in nursing when...
Conducting international nursing research: challenges and opportunities
Aim To describe practical experiences before, during and after gaining entry into...
Reflecting on the challenges of choosing and using a grounded theory approach
Aim To explore three different approaches to grounded theory and consider some of...
Lessons learned from conducting qualitative research in a hospital
Aim To examine unexpected barriers to the conduct of hospital research during a...
Conducting qualitative longitudinal research using interpretative phenomenological...
Aim To discuss the methodological and epistemological challenges experienced when...
As others see us: what PhD students say about supervisors
Aim To explore the attitudes that doctoral students share with each other in an...
Researcher or nurse? Difficulties of undertaking semi-structured interviews on...
Nurses’ experiences of ethnographic fieldwork
Aim To reflect on the experiences of nurses performing ethnographic fieldwork in...
Social research design: framework for integrating philosophical and practical elements
Aim To provide and elucidate a comprehensible framework for the design of social...
Explaining why nurses remain in or leave bedside nursing: a critical ethnography
Aim To describe the application of critical ethnography to explain nurses’...
Being a practitioner: an application of Heidegger’s phenomenology
Aim To explain how Heidegger’s phenomenology can be applied to investigations of...
What does originality in research mean? A student’s perspective
Aim To provide a student’s perspective of what it means to be original when...
Reaching a consensus on service-user involvement in courses for professionals
Aim To describe how a workshop that used a modified nominal group technique (NGT)...