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.

A research routine to assess bias introduced by low response rates in postal surveys

Low response rates to postal surveys potentially bias study results. We used three...

Reconciling methodological approaches of survey and focus group

The aim of research, be it qualitative or quantitative is either to predict,...

Seeing both the forest and the trees: a process for tracking individual responses in...

Focus groups are a popular component of nursing research. While they have their...

Uses of a research diary: learning reflectively, developing understanding and...

The author of this paper started a research diary to provide transparency to her...

Developing and testing attitude scales around IT

Information technology (IT) is an integral component of the healthcare delivery...

Issues in using methodological triangulation in research

This paper describes how methodological triangulation was used in two nursing...

Involving children and young people in the development of art-based research tools

In this article, the authors describe how they worked with children and young...

Conducting research on acute mental health admission wards

A group of researchers investigated medication (drug) rounds on mental health...

Tips on overlapping confidence intervals and univariate linear models

In randomised controlled trials, an overlap of confidence intervals is often cited...

A new critical framework for applying hermeneutic phenomenology

Phenomenological research seeks to understand how individuals perceive and make...

Asking sensitive questions: accessing the ‘private’ account

People living with faecal incontinence (FI) are often reluctant to talk to family...

An exploration of intent for narrative methods of inquiry

This article discusses the purpose, process and usefulness of narrative-based research....

Focus groups: principles and process

Focus groups have been used by researchers in the social and behavioural sciences...

Rigour in qualitative research: mechanisms for control

Qualitative research methods are accepted as congruent with and relevant to the...

The family research interview

Family researchers enter a sacred space in which the most intimate, formative and...

From substantive theory towards a family nursing scale

This paper describes the process of developing and testing a family nursing scale...

An interprofessional approach to the ethics of undertaking research with children

Ethics has been defined as moral principles that in the context of research pertain...

Presenting with precision: preparing and delivering a polished conference presentation

Conference presentations are increasingly recognised as a mechanism for the...

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