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.
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...
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...
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...
Choosing phenomenology as a guiding philosophy for nursing research
Aim To provide an overview of important methodological considerations that nurse...
Using extant literature in a grounded theory study: a personal account
Aim To provide a personal account of the factors in a doctoral study that led to...
van Manen’s method and reduction in a phenomenological hermeneutic study
Aim To describe van Manen’s method and concept of reduction in a study that used a...
Use of Skype in interviews: the impact of the medium in a study of mental health nurses
Aim To discuss the use of Skype as a medium for undertaking semi-structured...
Bracketing as a skill in conducting unstructured qualitative interviews
Aim To provide an overview of bracketing as a skill in unstructured qualitative...
Ethical issues when involving people newly diagnosed with dementia in research
Aim To discuss the methodological and ethical review challenges encountered by...
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...