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Nurse Researcher - Volume 15, Issue 3
Nurse Researcher
Issue 3 - Volume 15 - 01 April 2008
9 archive articles
- Editorial: Managing research is vital for project success
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Date: April 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3 - Snakes and ladders: reflections of a novice researcher
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Date: April 2008
This article provides a reflective overview of some of Mary Wilson’s experiences of changing from being a UK continence nurse specialist to a novice researcher. She reflects on how her study was relev...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: novice nurse researcher, research supervision, grounded theory, reflective account - Research method issue: recruiting and retaining subjects in a research study
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Date: April 2008
This article considers recruitment and retention of study subjects, two vital elements of the research process. Using as an example a Canadian programme to engage older people in physical activity, Ph...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: research methods, recruitment and retention, older adults, sampling plan - Records management guidance and its implications for research
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Date: April 2008
The UK Department of Health’s code of practice for managing records has important implications for nurse researchers. Naomi Reay and Jill Firth consider the steps researchers need to take to comply wi...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: records management, code of practice, research, patients: records - The under-used resource of historical research
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Date: April 2008
Nurse educationalists in Britain face the charge that the system is no longer producing nurses who are competent when they qualify. Research into these issues led to an historical approach, using life...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: history, life story, documentary research, the good nurse, discourse - Why do nursing students who consider leaving stay on their courses?
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Date: April 2008
A global shortage of nurses means there is an increasing interest in attrition rates among nursing students. This UK research by Julie Bowden looked at attrition from the perspective of those who almo...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: student retention, student experience, personal tutoring, support - ‘Dipping our toes in the research pool’: novice researchers in a collaborative project
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Date: April 2008
A study into research capacity at two universities offered opportunities to both novice and experienced researchers. Here, Julie Douglas and three novice researchers, Yvonne Flood, Sara Morris and Cla...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: research collaboration, novice researchers, reflection, comparative case study - A descriptive analysis of the non-urgent use of emergency departments
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Date: April 2008
This study by Carla Brim from the United States analyses why people seek non-urgent care in emergency departments during hours when community providers are available. Results indicate that lack of hea...
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
Keywords: healthcare access, emergency department use, policy, health insurance - ‘We have more in common as humans than difference’
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Date: April 2008
Journal: Nurse Researcher
Issue: Volume 15, Number 3
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