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.
Using the consensus development conference method in healthcare research
Consensus methods have been used in health research for many years, although it has...
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...
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...
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...
A descriptive analysis of the non-urgent use of emergency departments
Access to health care is a major concern of consumers, healthcare providers and...
Research method issue: recruiting and retaining subjects in a research study
This study derives from a larger study examining the association between mental...
Records management guidance and its implications for research
This paper discusses the Records Management: NHS Code of Practice (Department of...
Snakes and ladders: reflections of a novice researcher
While I was completing the project described here, I spent considerable time...
The under-used resource of historical research
A Complete System of Nursing (Ashdown 1934) describes the strongly held view of the...
The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace
Over the last decade, there has been growing recognition that bullying is a...
From conference presentation to journal publication: a guide
Conference presentations are a way to encourage nurses to disseminate their...