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Navigating evidence: a concise guide to types of literature review commonly used in healthcare research.

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1963

Jacqueline Harley

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Theoretical sensitivity and reflexivity in grounded theory. 基础理论中的理论敏感性和反身性。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Epub Date: 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1936

Adam Hughes, Wilfred McSherry

{"title":"Theoretical sensitivity and reflexivity in grounded theory.","authors":"Adam Hughes, Wilfred McSherry","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1936","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1936","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Grounded theory (GT) has become one of the foremost tools in qualitative nursing research. There are different approaches to GT but a feature common to all of them is theoretical sensitivity, which facilitates GT's iterative process. However, differences between the approaches in how to apply theoretical sensitivity and how much influence existing knowledge should play have contributed to tribalism.Aim: To critically evaluate the role of theoretical sensitivity and reflexivity in GT and the involvement they can have, as well as explore what steps researchers can take to improve their insight.Discussion: Theoretical sensitivity enables researchers to steer their studies to answer their research questions, gain insight into their study's findings and develop theory grounded in the data. However, reflection is required for researchers to understand their effect on the theories that emerge, prevent them from applying preconceived ideas and allow for the unfettered emergence of theory.Conclusion: Researchers who do not demonstrate insight into their own philosophical positions and influences risk being accused of bias; this may result in the perceived value of their theoretical outcomes being reduced. Applying a reflexive process may mitigate this, enabling them to understand and refine their methodological processes and produce high-quality GT research.Implications for practice: All researchers should consider using reflexivity when conducting research. Understanding influences and positionality in qualitative methodologies allows for transparency and improves the rigour of their outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"11-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How many is enough? Justifying sample size in descriptive quantitative research.

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1958

Ruth Alison Mursa, Christopher Patterson, Gemma McErlean, Elizabeth Halcomb

{"title":"How many is enough? Justifying sample size in descriptive quantitative research.","authors":"Ruth Alison Mursa, Christopher Patterson, Gemma McErlean, Elizabeth Halcomb","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1958","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Descriptive quantitative researchers often use surveys to collect data about a group or phenomenon. Determining the required sample size in descriptive surveys can pose a challenge as there is no simple 'formula' by which to calculate an appropriate sample. However, when a sample is too small the study may fail to answer the research question and too many responses can create resource implications.Aim: To explore considerations regarding the justification of adequate sample size in descriptive quantitative research.Discussion: Several considerations may assist quantitative descriptive researchers in examining the appropriateness and justification of sample size. Response rates can guide decision-making around the proportion of the target population who respond. Additionally, consideration of any validated tools, the spread or responses and types of analysis can guide sampling decisions.Conclusion: The strategies in this article provide a considered approach to justifying sample size in descriptive quantitative research. Factors such as response rates and analytical considerations provide a transparent means of justifying an adequate sample.Implications for practice: Providing clear justification for the sample size within descriptive quantitative research demonstrates a robust research approach and optimises resource use.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of a nurse's dual role on implementing an effectiveness study. 护士的双重角色对实施有效性研究的影响。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Epub Date: 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1939

Allison Soprovich, Lisa Wozniak, Kari Meneen, Dean Eurich

{"title":"The impact of a nurse's dual role on implementing an effectiveness study.","authors":"Allison Soprovich, Lisa Wozniak, Kari Meneen, Dean Eurich","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1939","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1939","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Reorganizing the Approach to Diabetes through the Application of Registries (RADAR) improved diabetes care and outcomes for First Nations people in Alberta, Canada. The nurse involved in the implementation of RADAR performed two roles in this model of care: research nurse and care coordinator.Aim: To describe the research nurse's dual role in the implementation and evaluation of RADAR.Discussion: The research nurse not only documented and collected data in hard-to-reach communities as part of effective research, she also provided remote care coordination to support community healthcare providers using a culturally tailored registry to facilitate population-level care. This dual role required many qualities of nursing leadership and transformation.Conclusion: The research nurse's two roles contributed to the success of the intervention and were critical to the successful implementation of the model, creating valuable real-world evidence across diverse populations and settings.Implications for practice: Nurses are well placed to perform research duties alongside engagement and implementation activities. This can enhance the effectiveness and evaluation of healthcare interventions, particularly in community-based interventions within First Nations communities.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Protocol club: a social learning framework for the research delivery workforce. 协议俱乐部：研究实施队伍的社会学习框架。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Epub Date: 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1955

Hilarious de Jesus, Deirdre Brooking, Karen Dunne, Elisa Visentin

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Using a hybrid Delphi/nominal group technique to develop a tool for appraising the quality of mixed-method grounded theory research. 使用德尔菲/名义小组混合技术，开发评估混合方法基础理论研究质量的工具。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Epub Date: 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1947

Patricia Louise Lowe, Samantha Jakimowicz, Tracy Louise Levett-Jones, Adele Baldwin, Cindy Stern

{"title":"Using a hybrid Delphi/nominal group technique to develop a tool for appraising the quality of mixed-method grounded theory research.","authors":"Patricia Louise Lowe, Samantha Jakimowicz, Tracy Louise Levett-Jones, Adele Baldwin, Cindy Stern","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1947","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1947","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Among the many methodological approaches used to generate new knowledge in nursing research are mixed methods and grounded theory. However, it can be challenging for researchers to achieve and demonstrate the philosophically congruent integration required in mixed-method, grounded-theory research.Aim: To use a hybrid of Delphi and nominal group techniques to develop a tool to appraise the quality of mixed-method, grounded-theory research.Method: The extant literature informed the construction of an evidence-based checklist and explanatory notes that were discussed and voted upon by experienced mixed-method and grounded-theory researchers. The tool was progressively piloted in three projects employing varying grounded-theory approaches.Discussion: Experienced mixed-method and grounded-theory researchers discussed and voted on the construction of an evidence-based checklist and explanatory notes informed by the extant literature. The researchers piloted the tool in three rounds, with reference to previous studies that used various grounded-theory approaches.Conclusion: This study reports an effective strategy for gaining consensus to develop a tool demonstrating content, inter-rater and concurrent reliability.Implications for practice: Nurse researchers of various levels of expertise can use the tool developed in this study, which will accommodate future advances in mixed-method and grounded-theory research.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"33-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Qualitative case studies in suicide research: a novice researcher's reflections.

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1961

Taylor Yousiph, Christopher Patterson, Lorna Moxham

{"title":"Qualitative case studies in suicide research: a novice researcher's reflections.","authors":"Taylor Yousiph, Christopher Patterson, Lorna Moxham","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1961","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The suicide process is a complex and uniquely individual phenomenon. The need to understand and bring meaning to individual experiences of suicide is burgeoning amidst the growing global impacts of suicide. Qualitative case-study research uses multiple forms of evidence to investigate a phenomenon in a certain context.Aim: To present critical reflections on the lead author's doctoral project, which uses a case-study design to investigate people who have experience of suicide and are educating preregistration nurses on clinical placement.Discussion: The lead author reflects critically on, and provides insights into, adopting the qualitative case-study methodology for suicide research, including: defining the role of the researcher; the appropriate use of methods of collecting data; and ensuring participants are safe. Reflexivity played an important role in ensuring the participants' and the lead author's well-being throughout the project, and the authors posit it as a central strategy in future research.Conclusion: Qualitative case-study research is a novel approach to suicide research that aligns with global suicide prevention frameworks and includes people's experiences in the formation of policies, design of interventions and education. Reflection should be a central strategy in such research.Implications for practice: Suicide research requires careful consideration and planning at every stage. Researchers must plan and evaluate participants' safety, the role of the researcher and data collection methods before, during and after the research.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding literature reviews: a guide for enhancing nursing practice globally.

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1949

Sarah Butler

{"title":"Understanding literature reviews: a guide for enhancing nursing practice globally.","authors":"Sarah Butler","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1949","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Literature reviews are essential in nursing for integrating research into practice, informing clinical guidelines and shaping health policy. They comprehensively synthesise the available evidence, supporting nurses in making informed decisions that improve patient care. It is therefore crucial when researchers are selecting the method most appropriate for investigating their clinical questions that they understand the different types of literature review.Aim: To explore the characteristics, strengths and limitations of narrative, systematic and scoping reviews, as well as highlight their significance in nursing practice globally.Discussion: Narrative reviews provide broad, flexible overviews of topics; however, they lack methodological rigour, which can potentially result in bias. Systematic reviews provide high-quality, reliable evidence by using a structured approach to synthesising data from multiple studies; this makes them valuable for clinical decision-making and the development of guidelines. Scoping reviews map the scope of research onto emerging topics, identifying gaps and future research priorities, though they do not typically assess the quality of included studies.Conclusion: Literature reviews are vital tools for nurses worldwide. Understanding the differences between types of literature review enables nurses to effectively use the one most appropriate to their needs. This is essential for evidence-based practice, informs clinical and policy decisions, and supports high-quality patient care, as well as contributing to nurses' professional development.Implications for practice: Nurses who engage with literature reviews can stay informed about the latest research, improve patient outcomes and participate in the advancement of nursing knowledge globally.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143059692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recognising vicarious trauma in research: the experiences of researchers who work with victimisation data and the support they need. 认识到研究中的间接创伤：处理受害数据的研究人员的经验和他们需要的支持。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1952

Shannon Dhollande, Diksha Sapkota, Silke Meyer

{"title":"Recognising vicarious trauma in research: the experiences of researchers who work with victimisation data and the support they need.","authors":"Shannon Dhollande, Diksha Sapkota, Silke Meyer","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1952","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The vicarious trauma people who provide direct clinical care may experience is well documented. However, there is limited information about the vicarious trauma that researchers working with victim-survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) or victimisation-related data may experience.Aim: To describe and reflect on the vicarious trauma experienced by people researching DFV who have repeatedly been exposed to significant, traumatic data.Discussion: Reflections were sourced from three researchers who were studying DFV victim-survivors' stories of trauma. Their work often left them feeling distressed and helpless. Crucial self-care strategies included taking regular breaks and debriefing co-researchers.Conclusion: It is essential to monitor, prepare for and provide appropriate supervision and trauma-informed support to manage and address the vicarious trauma that researchers who work with sensitive and distressing data and vulnerable populations commonly experience.Implications for practice: Researchers need to consider during the conceptual phases of their studies possible risks to their psychological safety. Furthermore, research institutions have a responsibility to support researchers' mental well-being and promote safe research practices. Ethics committees may need to ensure prior to granting ethical approval that researchers have developed and implement strategies to prevent psychological harm to themselves.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143013936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sex workers and their stories: using timelines as a creative method in research involving underserved populations. 性工作者和他们的故事：在涉及服务不足人群的研究中使用时间轴作为一种创造性方法。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1946

Fiona Meth, Louise Warwick-Booth

{"title":"Sex workers and their stories: using timelines as a creative method in research involving underserved populations.","authors":"Fiona Meth, Louise Warwick-Booth","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1946","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Researchers may often find it challenging to gather data with underserved populations, even when using traditional qualitative methods. They may also be at risk of further entrenching the hegemony of the dominant narrative, silencing participants' experiences and further marginalising and excluding those most in need. Timelines and other creative methods are useful, sensitive tools that combine flexibility and malleability with an ethical appeal, such as feminist ethics of care. Researchers can use them to gather data from participants experiencing inequalities and trauma.Aim: To outline the value of timelines as a method in nursing research.Discussion: This article considers feminist values, power dynamics and the ethics of using timelines when gathering data. It illustrates these using the example of a study involving female sex workers.Conclusion: Creative methods minimise the ways in which researchers control the production of data and enable participants to choose how they narrate complex and traumatic experiences. Researchers can combine them with deep, ongoing reflexivity to address some of the power imbalances inherent in research and mitigate epistemic violence.Implications for practice: There are strong and evidence-based ethical motivations for conducting research using creative methods. Having a flexible approach to their application and use in practice is key, as not everyone wants to engage with creative methods, or they may not wish to engage with that specific method at that time. Creative methods can serve as vital anchor points in your interviews with participants and are as much about the process as they are about the output.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142915964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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