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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

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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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Building inclusive research cultures in nursing - getting ready for the Research Excellence Framework 2029. 在护理领域建立包容性研究文化--为 2029 年卓越研究框架做好准备。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Epub Date: 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1929

Fiona Mary Ross

{"title":"Building inclusive research cultures in nursing - getting ready for the Research Excellence Framework 2029.","authors":"Fiona Mary Ross","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1929","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1929","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The research environment is a complex ecosystem but is vital for nurturing excellence, vitality and sustainability. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) applies to research in the four nations of the UK. The framework and principles for the next REF have been published, with submissions due in 2028 and the results to be published in 2029. The three elements of the REF have changed and new weightings applied, with 'People, Culture and Environment' forming 25% of the whole.Aim: To inform research leaders, investigators, clinical nurse researchers, and doctoral and postdoctoral students about how to prepare dynamic research strategies that prioritise inclusivity in talent management and succession.Discussion: This article considers inclusivity in research cultures, what has been learned from the previous REF and what more needs to be done collectively across the sector and specifically in nursing. The discussion draws on the author's personal knowledge and experience as a research leader, senior manager and university governor. It is intended to be challenging and practically oriented.Conclusion: The article sets out provocations to shape an agenda for promoting inclusive research cultures to ensure organisational readiness for REF 2029.Implications for practice: The article provides pragmatic suggestions for moving forward at pace with making the culture in nursing research more open, transparent and fair.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"35-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005566","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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A worked example of contextualising and using reflexive thematic analysis in nursing research. 在护理研究中结合实际情况使用反思性专题分析的实例。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Epub Date: 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1924

Emma Rowland, Anna Conolly

{"title":"A worked example of contextualising and using reflexive thematic analysis in nursing research.","authors":"Emma Rowland, Anna Conolly","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1924","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1924","url":null,"abstract":"Background: A researcher must consider their research question within their world view before selecting a technique appropriate for analysing their data. This will affect their choices of methodology and methods for collecting and analysing data. Reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) has become a go-to technique for qualitative nurse researchers. However, the justifications for using it and its application in the context of a wider approach are under-discussed.Aim: To rationalise the use of RTA within a wider philosophical-methodological-methods-analysis approach and provide nurse researchers with practical guidance about how to apply it to qualitative data.Discussion: This article conceptually grounds the seminal work of Braun and Clarke (2006 ) and provides a process for rigorously and systematically analysing qualitative data. Researchers undertaking qualitative research must use a rigorous philosophical-methodological-method-analysis approach. Before selecting a technique appropriate for analysing their data, they must consider their research question within their own world view. This has implications for their choice of methodology and consequently the data collection methods and analysis techniques they use. Researchers should be mindful of RTA's conceptual roots when applying it.Conclusion: Transparent and rigorous data analysis leads to credible findings, supports evidence-based practice and contributes to the growing body of nursing research. Within the context of the wider philosophical-methodological-methods-analysis approach, RTA produces high-quality, credible findings when applied well.Implications: for practice This article can guide nursing students and novice researchers in choosing and applying RTA to their research.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"17-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113408","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 nurse researchers can use stepped-wedge design and analysis. 护士研究人员如何使用阶梯式楔形设计和分析。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Epub Date: 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1940

Majid Ali Alotni, Ritin Fernandez, Ginger Chu, Michelle Guilhermino

{"title":"How nurse researchers can use stepped-wedge design and analysis.","authors":"Majid Ali Alotni, Ritin Fernandez, Ginger Chu, Michelle Guilhermino","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1940","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1940","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Designing effective health interventions and evaluating their impact is crucial to improving the health of the population. To ensure interventions are of high quality and effective, evidence-based research is essential, particularly studies that use randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or systematic reviews. However, RCTs may not be feasible or ethical in certain situations, such as in intensive care units. Cluster or stepped-wedge RCTs are alternative ways to assess interventions that also address these ethical concerns.Aim: To explain the stepped-wedge design and its main features as well as how to use it to evaluate nursing interventions.Discussion: Understanding stepped-wedge designs empowers nurses to implement evidence-based interventions and improve patient outcomes. The use of stepped-wedge designs has increased in nursing research over the past two decades, indicating growing recognition of its advantages: efficient evaluation of healthcare interventions, ensuring all clusters receive treatment over time; smaller sample sizes; ethical considerations; and time control. However, challenges remain: ensuring nurse researchers' understanding and application of it is consistent, extended duration and logistical complexities. Methodological rigour, collaboration and understanding of secular trends are crucial, and nurses' involvement in RCTs enhances cluster selection, data collection and dissemination.Conclusion: The stepped-wedge design offers an ethical and adaptable method for studying interventions, considering healthcare complexities and allocating resources. Its versatility assists the advancement of nursing care delivery and in promoting evidence-based practice.Implications for practice: Understanding stepped-wedge designs in nursing practice enhances evidence-based care, decision-making, collaboration and professional development, benefiting patient outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":"29-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141856751","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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Exploring the application and significance of case study research in nursing. 探索个案研究在护理中的应用和意义。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Epub Date: 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1926

Camille Cronin

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Cocreating composite digital stories to share research findings with minority ethnic and disadvantaged communities: a reflective guide. 共同创作复合数字故事，与少数民族和弱势群体分享研究成果：反思指南。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2024.e1944

Louise Condon, Prue Thimbleby, Denise Barry, Jolana Curejova, Donna Leeanne Morgan, Sam Worrall, Suzy Hargreaves, Filiz Celik, Menna Price

{"title":"Cocreating composite digital stories to share research findings with minority ethnic and disadvantaged communities: a reflective guide.","authors":"Louise Condon, Prue Thimbleby, Denise Barry, Jolana Curejova, Donna Leeanne Morgan, Sam Worrall, Suzy Hargreaves, Filiz Celik, Menna Price","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2024.e1944","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Researchers have an ethical responsibility to share their findings with their studies' participants and those who can influence policy and practice. Storytelling is an arts-based approach increasingly used in nursing research to share findings, but little has been written about how to use the approach in participatory research involving people from minority ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.Aim: To present a guide to cocreating digital stories to share research findings with minority ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.Discussion: The authors and peer researchers from minority communities used a rigorous method to cocreate composite digital stories from their qualitative research's findings. The authors describe and reflect on the stages of the creative process, focusing on the actions required before, at and after the collaborative workshop.Conclusion: A rigorous process is required to create composite, naturalistic digital stories that authentically reflect research findings and are accessible to listeners.Implications for practice: Digital stories are an engaging, feasible and equitable way to share research findings with minority ethnic and disadvantaged communities.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781453","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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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 : 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":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","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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