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Background: The author is a professional doctorate student and full-time nurse in an education role in a UK NHS Trust. COVID-19 caused a major disruption to her research, which focused on nursing workforce development in primary care. She received ethical approval for the research in February 2020 and had just begun to collect data as the country entered its first period of lockdown and all activity not related directly to COVID-19 was sidelined.
Aim: To share the author's reflections on this experience and make recommendations that may help others whose research is disrupted.
Discussion: The author had not considered in her plans the disruption that would be caused by COVID-19, but she adapted her study's design to minimise some of its effects and also discovered some new opportunities.
Conclusion: Nurse researchers whose studies are disrupted can adapt to overcome the challenges and try to find new opportunities.
Implications for practice: The author hopes that sharing her reflections will encourage other nurse researchers who face unexpected disruptions to their research.
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