Clinical

<p>Background There is increasing reference to complex patient needs in health care.

<p>Aim To describe the development of a research question, aim and objective.</p> <p>Background The first steps of any study are developing the research questi

<p>Background A growing older adult population is leading to increased admission rates to long-term care facilities such as nursing homes and residential care homes.

<p>Background Content analysis of replies to closed questions in questionnaires can be undertaken to understand remarks that may explain the responses, provide illustrativ

<p>Aim To describe and recommend a variety of data analysis methods when engaging in narrative research using story as an aid to nursing students’ learning.</p> <

<p>Background Circular questions are used within systematic family therapy as a tool to generate multiple explanations and stories from a family situation and as a means t

<p>Aim To highlight philosophical and theoretical considerations for planning a mixed methods research design that can inform a practice model to guide rural district nurs

<p>Aim To draw on the authors’ experience of research conducted with vulnerable young women to argue for the use of storyboards in focus groups.</p> <p>Backgro

<p>Background Diaries are growing in popularity in healthcare, and are useful for obtaining a more profound understanding of participants’ experiences.

<p>Aim To summarise the usefulness of available psychometric tools in assessing secondary trauma in nursing staff and examine their limitations, as well as their strengths

<p>Aim To discuss the theoretical framework of social constructivism and justify its appropriateness for and compatibility with an interpretive approach to child adolescen

<p>Aim To define conceptual frameworks and their inherent dichotomies, and integrate them with concomitant concepts to help early nursing doctoral researchers to develop t