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<p>Aims To improve estimation of statistical power by constructing its confidence interval.</p> <p>Background Statistical power is often computed using a sampl
<p>Aim To describe the dynamics of the Chinese people who will be encountered in a study in which an advanced psychiatric nurse will interview her colleagues to explore th
<p>Aim To describe the use of an innovative, multimethodological approach to exploring the day-to-day experiences of boys across a wide age range to better understand the
<p>Aim To explore the notion of ‘hubris’ as an important consideration of reflexive thinking in qualitative research and how over-exuberant assumptions when interpreting d
<p>Aim To provide an overview of interpretive phenomenology.</p> <p>Background Phenomenology is a philosophy and a research approach.
<p>Aim To present the actions taken by the Scottish Dementia Clinical Research Network (SDCRN) to comply with Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy (SNDS) on patient and p
<p>Aim To describe an example of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in a study about the role of clinical placement, nursing education and patient outcomes.</p>
<p>Aim This paper explores the writing of research papers using reflective frameworks.</p> <p>Background Reflective practice is integral to professional educat
<p>Aim To discuss and demonstrate the use of reflexivity in interpretive phenomenological analysis.</p> <p>Background Interpretative phenomenological analysis
<p>Aim To provide an overview of governance issues relating to medical-device trials and practical advice for nurses wishing to initiate or lead them.</p> <p>B
<p>Aim To enable readers to make an informed decision about whether online research methods (ORMs) are appropriate for their studies.</p> <p>Background Using a
<p>Aim To describe three styles of interviews and discuss issues regarding planning and conducting interviews.</p> <p>Background Interviews are probably the ap
<p>Aim To present an overview of the main components of randomised controlled trials and identify issues for consideration during their design and management.</p> <p>Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are considered to be the gold standard for determining causality a
Implications for practice <p>Aim To report on the development of an observation tool that can help a single researcher to collect field data about clinician and client interactions.</p> <p>Background Qualitative studies from a range of disciplines investigate the dynamics of int
<p>Aim To introduce the ‘obser-view’ qualitative research method and to show how obser-view can be used in research.</p> <p>Background The author developed the obser-view during a qualitative research project about nursing students’ learning processes, because participants wante
Aim To provide examples of a qualitative multiple case study to illustrate the specific strategies that can be used to ensure the credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability of a study.
<p>Aim To discuss how case-study research was undertaken to explain the implementation of the nurse practitioner role in a Canadian province.</p> <p>Background In Canada, the nurse practitioner role was only recently introduced and one of the last provinces to implement it was B
<p>Aim To compare and contrast postal and internet surveys in studies of nurse workforces.</p> <p>Background There is little research that examines the advantages and disadvantages of different surveys in studies of nurse workforces.</p> <p>Data sources Previous stud
