Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
<p>Aim To describe van Manen’s method and concept of reduction in a study that used a phenomenological hermeneutic approach.</p> <p>Background Nurse researcher
Aim To present an overview of portraiture.
<p>Aim To discuss the construction of context-mechanisms-outcomes (CMOs) developed as part of a realistic evaluation study of two aggression management training programmes
<p>Aim To describe the development of a proposed case study protocol investigating interprofessional relationships in a rapid response system (RRS) in a socioculturally co
<p>Aim To reflect on the use of photo elicitation as a data collection method when conducting research with primary school age children (nine to 11 years).</p> <p
Aim To reflect on the potential of blogs to enhance engagement with research, create a dialogue between researchers and nurses, and provide feedback to researchers.
<p>Aim This paper reviews three research methods for developing consensus.</p> <p>Background Consensus statements and guidelines are increasingly used to clari
<p>Aim To examine unexpected barriers to the conduct of hospital research during a study of nurses’ activation of rapid response teams.</p> <p>Background We in
<p>Aim To report the use of a community participatory approach (PA) in a project investigating tuberculosis (TB) in UK Somali migrants.</p> <p>Background It is
<p>Aim To describe practical experiences before, during and after gaining entry into research fields in Kenya and Uganda.</p> <p>Background Planning, conductin
<p>Aim To give clarity to the analysis of participant observation in nursing when implementing the grounded theory method.</p> <p>Background Participant observ
<p>Aim To explore three different approaches to grounded theory and consider some of the possible philosophical assumptions underpinning them.</p> <p>Backgroun
<p>Aim To provide a template for developing a national mentoring scheme to enhance the contribution practitioner researchers can make to the quality of health care in England.</p> <p>Background The authors describe the background to and organisation of a mentorship scheme to sup
<p>Aim To reflect on the experiences of nurses performing ethnographic fieldwork in three studies.</p> <p>Background The application of ethnography to nursing research requires discussion about nurses’ experiences of ethnographic fieldwork.
<p>Aim To describe the application of critical ethnography to explain nurses’ decisions to remain in or leave bedside nursing, and to describe researcher positioning and reflexivity.</p> <p>Background Enquiry into hospital nurses’ decisions to remain in or leave bedside nursing
<p>Aim To provide and elucidate a comprehensible framework for the design of social research.</p> <p>Background An abundance of information exists concerning the process of designing social research.
Aim To reflect on the author’s personal and professional journey when undertaking semi-structured interviews on sensitive topics with potentially vulnerable people.
<p>Aim To discuss the methodological and epistemological challenges experienced when conducting a longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of patients’ experiences of chronic low back pain (CLBP).</p> <p>Background The author draws on experiences of managing i
