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{"title":"How to get the most out of research supervision","authors":"Elizabeth Halcomb, Rebekkah Middleton, Gemma McErlean","doi":"10.7748/nr.32.2.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.32.2.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141354137","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}

{"title":"Using the principles of practice development to address challenges in recruitment and data collection when face-to-face methods are unavailable.","authors":"Leanne Cummins, Kate Dawson, Sara Bayes, Valerie Wilson, Shahla Meedya","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1898","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Researchers conducting studies involving pregnant women often find recruitment challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic added further complexity to studies requiring face-to-face participation.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To demonstrate how to maintain the principles of practice development (PD) when a study must switch from face-to-face to remote methods of collecting data.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The number of participants in the authors' study increased when they moved from face-to-face to telephone engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. They continued using PD principles when they changed method and the quality of the data they collected remained constant, even once lockdown restrictions were in place.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>PD principles can offer ways for nurse researchers to engage, collaborate with and reflect with people for research projects, including when constraints compete with participation. They can also assist researchers in optimising and maintaining recruitment and data collection when face-to-face research methods are impossible.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>The telephone can be a valuable alternative medium for recruiting participants and collecting data when face-to-face methods are impossible to use. PD principles can be maintained and response rates and participation may even be greater when using it.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139991423","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}

{"title":"The permutation test: a simple way to test hypotheses.","authors":"Xiaofeng Steven Liu","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1920","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1920","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Quantitative researchers can use permutation tests to conduct null hypothesis significance testing without resorting to complicated distribution theory. A permutation test can reach conclusions in hypothesis testing that are the same as those of better-known tests such as the t-test but is much easier to understand and implement.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To introduce and explain permutation tests using two real examples of independent and dependent t-tests and their corresponding permutation tests.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This article traces the history of permutation tests, explains the possible reason for their absence in textbooks and offers a simple example of their implementation. It provides simple code written in the R programming language to generate the null distributions and P -values for the permutation tests.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Permutation tests do not require the strict model assumptions of t -tests and can be robust alternatives.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Permutation tests are a useful addition to practitioners' research repertoire for testing hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576892","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}

{"title":"Budding nurse academic authors please take note","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.32.2.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.32.2.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352983","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}

{"title":"An evaluation of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals 4Ps Programme for the development of nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals' research skills.","authors":"Felicity Pope, James Faraday, Annette Hand, Linda Tinkler","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2024.e1915","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Research forms an important part of clinical practice for nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals (NMAHPs). However, it is known there is a lack of confidence in this community in the development and use of research skills. The 4Ps Programme is a bespoke research-training programme that focuses on four areas: place, project, person and plan.\u0000\u0000\u0000AIM\u0000To report an evaluation of the 4Ps Programme that used a survey to record the confidence levels reported by NMAHPs.\u0000\u0000\u0000DISCUSSION\u0000An increase in participants' confidence was observed across all modules in the 4Ps Programme. This exceeded the standard deviation in the 'place' session, demonstrating genuine improvement. It was not possible to demonstrate a significant improvement in all cases. Low response rates affected the quality of the data obtained in the study, which would have benefitted from a more targeted approach to questions and better enabled the tracking of individuals' improvement over the course of the programme.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000Participation in bespoke, targeted training related to research could lead to an increase in NMAHPs' confidence in research-related activities. Efforts need to be made to refine the evaluation approach and improve response rates.\u0000\u0000\u0000IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE\u0000The 4Ps Programme can improve research-related confidence. Improved and further longitudinal evaluation will assess its impact in developing future clinical academics.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140712662","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}

{"title":"Planning for research impact.","authors":"Ruth Northway, Edward Oloidi, Paula Phillips, Stacey Rees","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1888","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1888","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Several drivers are currently leading to greater emphasis of the importance of ensuring research has impact. Nursing research aims to improve patient care, safety and well-being, so it might be assumed results with the potential to effect such changes would automatically have an impact on clinical practice. However, experience suggests this is not the case and careful attention is needed for there to be an impact.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To present the example of a project commissioned to develop a health communication tool to support people with learning disabilities in accessing healthcare.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The authors explore the importance of a planned approach to impact by referencing existing frameworks and providing examples of strategies used in the project. They also discuss the importance of framing the question using a range of approaches to actively engage stakeholders and of using diverse strategies to embed the development in practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A planned approach is required to maximise impact from research. Planning and associated actions need to start at the very beginning of the research project and continue beyond the point of delivering the project report.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>This paper relates to a specific context and patient group but the principles discussed are transferable to other clinical settings and patient groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71522958","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}

{"title":"Want to do a PhD? Some important things to consider","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.32.1.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.32.1.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247652","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}

{"title":"How to deal with an unsuccessful research bid","authors":"Andrew Finney, Gwen Wynne-Jones","doi":"10.7748/nr.32.1.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.32.1.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247829","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}

{"title":"Best practices in reporting analyses of questionnaires as objective rating scales of variable measures.","authors":"Odunayo Kolawole Omolade, John Stephenson","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1903","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1903","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The best practice model states that the highest quality of scientific information in a discipline should be used when addressing pertinent problems. The usefulness of any measure depends on the least allowable error, which implies that best practice approaches must be used during analyses of rating scales. However, modern theories of objective measurement in advanced statistics suggest there are some shortcomings in reports of questionnaire analyses.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To highlight some common problems in questionnaire data and suggest techniques of constructing objective measures during rating scale analysis.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Questionnaires are frequently used as rating scales of latent variables, such as knowledge, anxiety and outcomes of treatments. However, reports of the steps involved before generating the final 'measures' often fail to present known limitations and robust solutions to the problems common to questionnaire data. Most designers of questionnaires generate variable measures for either educational or clinical research purposes without providing adequate explanations of the steps taken to address inherent limitations that may worsen the error terms in the outcome measure.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cursory attention is given to the problems in questionnaire analysis as most users do not convincingly justify the measurement techniques they used before they present variable estimation. Reporting the techniques used to address data complexity by engaging objective measurement parameters ensures best practice and emphasises the credibility of the outcome measure.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Among researchers, using the techniques outlined here will lead to standardisation of questionnaire analysis and elimination of avoidable errors in constructing variable measures, resulting in high-quality data suitable for parametric statistics. For clinicians, these methods will simplify the interpretation of numerical measures to equivalent indicators on Wright maps, thus avoiding inconsistencies and misinterpretations of variable measure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41239839","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}

{"title":"A novel research competency framework for clinical research nurses and midwives.","authors":"Clair Harris, Naomi Hare, Laura McCabe, Hemawtee Sreeneebus, Teresa Crowley","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1900","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1900","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Clinical research nurses and midwives (CRN/Ms) are highly specialised registered nurses. They combine their clinical nursing expertise with research knowledge and skills to aid in the delivery of rigorous, high-quality clinical research to improve health outcomes, the research participant's experience and treatment pathways ( Beer et al 2022 ). However, there is evidence that the transition into a CRN/M role is challenging for registered nurses.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To discuss the development of a competency framework for CRN/Ms.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The authors identified a gap in their organisation for standards that would support the development of CRN/Ms new to the role. The standards needed to be clear and accessible to use while encompassing the breadth of scope of CRN/Ms' practice. The authors used a systematic and inclusive process drawing on Benner's ( 1984 ) theory of competence development to develop a suitable framework. Stakeholders engaged in its development included research participants, inclusion agents and CRN/Ms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The project identified 15 elements that are core to the CRN/M role and the knowledge, skills and behaviours associated with it.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>A large NHS trust has implemented the framework. It is also being shown to national and regional networks. Evaluation is under way.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139049551","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}