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.
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...
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’...
Conducting qualitative longitudinal research using interpretative phenomenological...
Aim To discuss the methodological and epistemological challenges experienced when...
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)...
Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK
Aim To show that the ethics governance process in the UK is not necessarily...
Using Facebook and participant information clips to recruit emergency nurses for...
Aim To examine the use of social networking sites in recruiting research...
Use of theoretical and conceptual frameworks in qualitative research
Aim To debate the definition and use of theoretical and conceptual frameworks in...
The roots and development of constructivist grounded theory
Aim To deconstruct how Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory (CGT) evolved from...