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.
Clinical and research databases in healthcare research
This paper reports on the experiences of two nurse researchers sampling from...
The under-used resource of historical research
A Complete System of Nursing (Ashdown 1934) describes the strongly held view of the...
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...
Concept analysis as a method of inquiry
Mathieson, in the editorial of the first issue of Nurse Researcher, said that one...
Understanding Practitioner Ethnography
The primary intention of this paper is to describe a qualitative research method,...
Qualitative meta-synthesis: a guide for the novice
An ancient Buddhist parable details the attempts of several blind men to describe...
Guidelines for reporting descriptive statistics in health research
There is mounting evidence that the quality of reporting results of medical and...
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...
Vignettes to assess healthcare staff perceptions of risk
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS), now in its sixth decade, has seen rapid...
Computer-assisted software transcription of qualitative interviews
Interviews are one of the most familiar qualitative research strategies employed to...
The use of photography as a qualitative research tool
The use of photographs as a research method has fluctuated over the last century....
Portable MP3 players: innovative devices for recording qualitative interviews
Qualitative interviewing is a method of data collection that is widely used in...