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Nurse Researcher - Volume 15, Issue 2

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Nurse Researcher

Issue 2 - Volume 15 - 01 January 2008

10 archive articles

 

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Understanding Practitioner Ethnography

Author: Thomas David Barton
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Practitioner Ethnography, Research Methods, Practical Experience, Nursing: Process

Thomas David Barton provides an overview of practitioner ethnography, a research approach that provides practitioners with a way of exploring the culture of their workplace. He compares practitioner a...
‘Asking the ‘why’ about men’s health’

Author: John McLuskey
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Practitioner Ethnography, Research Methods, Practical Experience, Nursing: Process

John McLuskey, associate professor at the University of Nottingham’s school of nursing, explains why constantly asking questions has driven his career forward
Enhancing research in practice and for practice

Author: Laura Serrant-Green
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2

Why should we research nursing and healthcare practice?’ If you ask the general public, a large majority will say that as nurses, we are trained to ‘do the job’. Ultimately our goal should be to relie...
Practice based research

Author: Alison Twycross
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2

Alison Twycross urges researchers to look beyond actual nursing care and to examine the impact of organisational culture and the socialisation of nursing on patient care
The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace

Authors: Marie Hutchinson | Lesley Wilkes | Margaret Vickers | Debra Jackson
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Bullying, Nursing, Mobbing, Organisational Behaviour, Workplace Violence

Marie Hutchinson, Lesley Wilkes, Margaret Vickers and Debra Jackson describe an Australian study of bullying that provides a putative model for further testing in nursing and other contexts
Vignettes to assess healthcare staff perceptions of risk

Authors: Anthony Brown | Colin Pritchard
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Medical Devices, Risk Management, Vignettes

Medical devices have become prolific and continue to increase in complexity and diversity, which will inevitably affect risk. The aim of this UK study, conducted by Anthony Brown and with statistical ...
From conference presentation to journal publication: a guide

Author: Brenda Happell
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Nurses, Knowledge dissemination, Conference presentations, Abstract

Large numbers of nurses present papers at professional and scholarly conferences. However, there are few avenues for the information to be disseminated more broadly. Brenda Happell provides a practica...
Concept analysis as a method of inquiry

Author: Moyra Ann Baldwin
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Concept Analysis, Models and Theories, Nursing: Philosophy, Nursing: Process

Many researchers begin their studies without clearly defined concepts. Moyra Ann Baldwin explains why researchers need to consider what it is they’re researching using concept analysis before starting...
Qualitative meta-synthesis: a guide for the novice

Authors: Kenneth W Finlayson | Annie Dixon
Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, Terminology, Methodology, Philosophy, Guidelines

The emerging field of qualitative synthesis is an exciting area of research with the potential to influence policy and practice. It is also saturated with a variety of unresolved philosophical, termin...
Guidelines for reporting descriptive statistics in health research

Date: January 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 2
Keywords: Descriptive Statistics, Appropriate Reporting, Health Research, Analysis

The quality of reporting of results of health studies has been the subject of several papers in the recent years. There are several guidelines published on the topic, but improvements have been very s...

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