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A grounded theory example of using focus groups to collect qualitative research data. 使用焦点小组收集定性研究数据的一个有根据的理论例子。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1967

Adam Hughes, Diane Lamb

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An overview of integrated pilot work as a reflexive tool to enhance qualitative research. 综合试点工作作为加强定性研究的反思性工具的概述。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1962

Hélène Durocher

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Understanding literature reviews: a guide for enhancing nursing practice globally. 理解文献综述：提高全球护理实践的指南。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Epub 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":"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":"27-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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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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 : 2025-06-11 Epub 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

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How many is enough? Justifying sample size in descriptive quantitative research. 多少才够？在描述性定量研究中证明样本量。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Epub 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":"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":"35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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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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 : 2025-06-11 Epub 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":"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":"19-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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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An introduction to umbrella reviews in evidence-based healthcare practice. 在以证据为基础的医疗保健实践伞审查的介绍。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1965

Jacqueline Harley

{"title":"An introduction to umbrella reviews in evidence-based healthcare practice.","authors":"Jacqueline Harley","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1965","url":null,"abstract":"Background: It is essential to synthesise evidence to ensure that reliable data inform clinical practice. Umbrella reviews are a key approach for aggregating findings from systematic reviews, meta-analyses and meta-syntheses. They help healthcare professionals to evaluate diverse findings in a single, comprehensive review. Healthcare professionals must understand how umbrella reviews work to enable them to interpret the broader research landscape and make informed clinical decisions.Aim: To introduce the main features of umbrella reviews, examine their strengths and limitations and outline the stages involved in conducting a review.Discussion: Umbrella reviews typically involve identifying relevant reviews, assessing their quality, synthesising their findings and highlighting overall patterns and gaps. There are challenges in conducting umbrella reviews, including the potential variability of the included reviews' quality and difficulties comparing studies with different methodologies. Nonetheless, they remain vital in guiding evidence-based practice, offering clarity in complex healthcare landscapes.Conclusion: Umbrella reviews are essential tools for synthesising high-level evidence, streamlining the process of informing clinical practice. Despite certain limitations, they support evidence-based decision-making effectively.Implications for practice: By aggregating evidence from systematic and meta-studies, umbrella reviews enhance understanding of complex health issues, enabling clinicians to make well-informed decisions. They improve patient care, support better clinical guidelines and reduce variability in treatment. However, clinicians must account for potential variations in the quality of the included studies.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144120797","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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Professionals in-place: the role of the practice-based research coordinator. 专业人员到位：基于实践的研究协调员的作用。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1964

Sally Goldspink, Andrea Tuckwell, Nieky van Veggel, Hilary Engward, Naim Abdulmohdi, Marie Alexander

{"title":"Professionals in-place: the role of the practice-based research coordinator.","authors":"Sally Goldspink, Andrea Tuckwell, Nieky van Veggel, Hilary Engward, Naim Abdulmohdi, Marie Alexander","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1964","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The authors were members of a large, interorganisational research project conducted by a university and an English NHS trust. The project's success relied on building positive partnerships and networks over three years. Recognising the challenges of working across different organisations, the authors created a new role for a nurse: the 'in-place research coordinator' (IPRC).Aim: To introduce and explain the new role and provide examples of how the authors devised and applied it during their research.Discussion: The IPRC was a member of the NHS trust, so brought valuable organisational insights to the research team while gaining research experience through applying her professional knowledge and connections.Conclusion: The IPRC enabled this inter-organisational research to take place, and had measurable efficacy and impact.Implications for practice: The authors recommend that future collaborative inter-organisational research projects include an IPRC, with specific budgeting for the role and recruitment from practice.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081389","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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Reflections on exploratory conversations about healthcare research: it is time for a real change. 关于医疗保健研究的探索性对话的思考：是时候做出真正的改变了。

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Nurse Researcher Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2025.e1950

Joy Oghogho Watterson, Rupinder Kaur Bajwa, Louise Howe, Alison Cowley, Kathryn Fairbrother

{"title":"Reflections on exploratory conversations about healthcare research: it is time for a real change.","authors":"Joy Oghogho Watterson, Rupinder Kaur Bajwa, Louise Howe, Alison Cowley, Kathryn Fairbrother","doi":"10.7748/nr.2025.e1950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2025.e1950","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Clinical research practitioners, nurses, allied healthcare professionals, doctors and any other healthcare professionals delivering clinical research have seen firsthand the under-representation of ethnic minorities as participants in research. This means that people who take part in research often do not reflect the target disease population. This can lead to health inequalities and disparities in treatment outcomes.Aim: To explore ethnic minority communities' perspectives of clinical research and identify areas of research that may interest them.Discussion: The authors had exploratory conversations between October 2022 and March 2023 through patient and public involvement and engagement (PPI/E) consultations with Caribbean groups and Asian groups in their community centres and research delivery staff in Nottinghamshire. They found during these conversations that the community groups could benefit from a deeper understanding of clinical research, including its procedures and common misconceptions. They conceptualised the potential impacts of negative and positive research experiences.Conclusion: Researchers, funders and stakeholders can facilitate participation in research. Researchers must focus on addressing barriers to participation by fostering continuous collaboration, offering research education, feeding back on the progress of research, building trustworthy relationships and addressing concerns that people might have about research or their immediate health.Implications for practice: This exploratory conversation demonstrates that researchers could provide meaningful research experience that would facilitate research participation by involving people from diverse backgrounds to influence the research question, methodology and every aspect of the research process through coproduction, codesign and PPI activities.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039447","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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Navigating evidence: a concise guide to types of literature review commonly used in healthcare research. 导航证据：一个简明的指南类型的文献综述通常用于医疗保健研究。

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

Jacqueline Harley

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