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.
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...
Legal, ethical and practical considerations in research involving nurses with dyslexia
Aim To discuss the legal, ethical and practical considerations in UK studies...
Is ‘Dear colleague’ enough? Improving response rates in surveys of healthcare...
Aim To explain a strategy to improve response rates from healthcare professionals...
The value of artefacts in stimulated-recall interviews
Aim To assess the use of artefacts in semi-structured, stimulated-recall interviews...
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...
Originality and the PhD: what is it and how can it be demonstrated?
Questioning the efficacy of ‘gold’ open access to published articles
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...
An introduction to unique adequacy
Aim To introduce nurse and healthcare researchers to the ethnomethodological (EM)...
Differentiating between descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research...
Aim To provide insight into how descriptive and interpretive phenomenological...
Perils and pitfalls for clinicians embarking on qualitative research in physiotherapy
Aim To consider the pros and cons of focus groups versus interviews for studies...
Levels of reduction in van Manen’s phenomenological hermeneutic method: an empirical...
Aim To describe reduction as a method using van Manen’s phenomenological...
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...
Qualitative case study data analysis: an example from practice
Aim To illustrate an approach to data analysis in qualitative case study...
Transforming the findings of narrative research into poetry
Aim To offer dramatic poetry as representing findings from narrative research that...
Using unstructured diaries for primary data collection
Aim To give a reflective account of using unstructured handwritten diaries as a...
Ethical issues when involving people newly diagnosed with dementia in research
Aim To discuss the methodological and ethical review challenges encountered by...
Choosing phenomenology as a guiding philosophy for nursing research
Aim To provide an overview of important methodological considerations that nurse...