Nurse ResearcherPub Date : 2022-09-07Epub Date: 2022-08-23DOI: 10.7748/nr.2022.e1846
Catherine Henshall, Tamara Lewin
{"title":"Academic writing retreats for nurses and allied health professionals: developing engagement, dissemination and collaboration opportunities.","authors":"Catherine Henshall, Tamara Lewin","doi":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1846","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>COVID-19 raised the profile of nursing globally, with widespread recognition of nurses' valuable roles during the pandemic. There is a unique opportunity to capitalise on this momentum to support nurses to become more engaged in and disseminate their research widely. One way to enable this is to develop academic writing retreats for nurses.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To report on the development of academic writing retreats to engage nurses in research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Four writing retreats were set up in the south of England between September 2019 and April 2021. Two were delivered face to face on hospital premises and two online. The retreats provided uninterrupted time for writing an academic publication, mentorship, peer support networks, and question and answer sessions. The retreats were attended by 42 health professionals, with more than 25 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. The retreats have enabled learning communities to develop, fostering long-term networking opportunities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Academic writing retreats for nurses have widespread benefits, providing nurses with uninterrupted time and space to focus on writing high-quality publications and creating networking opportunities through peer support and mentorship channels.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Academic writing retreats are a simple, yet effective way to get nurses to engage in research by writing about their own spheres of practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"30 3","pages":"19-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40649093","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":"Ensure our research contribution is visible","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.30.3.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.30.3.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46238203","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}
Nurse ResearcherPub Date : 2022-09-07Epub Date: 2022-07-07DOI: 10.7748/nr.2022.e1835
Li-Anne Audet, Michèle Desmarais, Émilie Gosselin
{"title":"Handling missing data through prevention strategies in self-administered questionnaires: a discussion paper.","authors":"Li-Anne Audet, Michèle Desmarais, Émilie Gosselin","doi":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1835","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-administered questionnaires are efficient and low-cost ways of collecting data with wide cohorts. Nonetheless, their use in studies can result in a high occurrence of missing data, which can affect the statistical power, representativeness and generalisability of the findings. Imputation methods have been considered efficient statistical techniques for managing missing data. However, they have also been associated with limits, such as the risk of under-estimation of the effect, lower statistical power and decrease of correlation among variables. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of using prevention strategies to avoid missing data before the data are analysed.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To identify strategies for preventing the occurrence of missing data and to discuss their effects, as well as their methodological and statistical considerations.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The article discusses prevention strategies related to the administration format and follow-up and reminders. Strategies such as the use of electronic tablets, email and telephone reminders are associated with lower rates of missing data in self-administered questionnaires. However, methodological and statistical limits, including the absence of a comparison group and statistical validation of the reported results, limits the capacity to establish robust consensus.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Prevention strategies represent relevant and feasible avenues for handling missing data in a wide range of clinical, nursing and epidemiological research. More projects based on robust design are needed to ensure accurate and reliable data are collected from patients, families, communities and clinicians.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>It is important for clinicians and nurses to understand the phenomenon of missing data and the strategies available to prevent missing data, to collect data representing the patients' and families' perspectives and experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"30 3","pages":"9-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40477632","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":"Could I take up a clinical academic nurse role?","authors":"Eleanor Hoverd","doi":"10.7748/nr.30.3.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.30.3.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44423595","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 my CAR-T therapy research seeks to improve cancer care and empower nurses","authors":"E. Williams","doi":"10.7748/nr.30.2.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.30.2.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"No one could have prepared nurses for the widespread destruction that COVID-19 would have on our health organisations with our whole way of working literally changing overnight.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49470176","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":"What have we learned from the pandemic?","authors":"L. Halcomb","doi":"10.7748/nr.30.2.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.30.2.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"What have researchers learned from the COVID-19 pandemic? In mid-2022 we are in a world that has changed significantly from the pre-pandemic period. Our communities have been affected by social isolation, physical distancing, and changes to employment. For nurses and midwives, the psychological toll of the loss of loved ones and colleagues, as well as caring for the dying will leave a lasting mark.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42955824","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":"Being reflexive in research and clinical practice: a practical example.","authors":"Wendy English, M. Gott, Jackie Robinson","doi":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2022.e1833","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Reflexivity is an invaluable skill for nurses and researchers, as it assists in closing the gap between research and practice and improves nursing practice. However, there is some doubt about how well reflexivity is implemented in nursing. There has also been little published showing how reflexivity can be applied in research and nursing.\u0000\u0000\u0000AIM\u0000To provide an example of reflexivity in research to demonstrate that knowledge and experiences are transferable to nursing practice.\u0000\u0000\u0000DISCUSSION\u0000Reflexivity is an important tool for research and nursing in finding the meeting points or interface of research and practice. This article provides an example of being reflexive that identified how the research skills of 'listening to understand' and 'finding meaning' filtered into nursing practice.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000Reflexivity helped to generate knowledge about research skills filtering across a research project into clinical practice. Being reflexive as a researcher and a nurse can transform the care of patients and families.\u0000\u0000\u0000IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE\u0000This article provides an example of how reflexivity can be applied to research and nursing practice. It also suggests reframing the gap between research and practice as an interface between the two. This could encourage nurses to think of research skills and knowledge as transferable into real-time nursing practice.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48856217","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 changing paradigm of research delivery during a pandemic - a reflective account.","authors":"C. Whitehouse, C. Harris, P. Charlton, Naomi Hare","doi":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2022.e1832","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000As clinical pressures evolved amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of research activity came to the forefront of health and care service requirements.\u0000\u0000\u0000AIM\u0000To illustrate through reflection the experiences of clinical research teams based in the UK during the pandemic.\u0000\u0000\u0000DISCUSSION\u0000The article describes operational experiences in different settings and reflects on important themes and implications for future practice. The authors use a reflective model to share perspectives of leading research delivery roles in geographically and organisationally different settings. A patient's perspective was included from the outset of the reflective process. Delegates at an interactive masterclass conference in April 2021 also contributed their experiences. Seven themes characterise the research teams' response to the pandemic: prioritising, team-building, protection, limitation of autonomy, reduced bureaucracy, collaboration and transformation of process. Balance through compassionate leadership underpinned by ethically grounded decision-making was a theme throughout.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000Implicitly held, tacit knowledge progressed to explicit knowledge, formalising the research teams' responses to the pandemic partly into codified learning. The authors characterise the experience as an 'operational balancing act', whereby significant innovations were integrated into working practices and research delivery.\u0000\u0000\u0000IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE\u0000The pandemic demonstrated what research progress is possible when all resources are diverted to one novel virus. The value of research teams was elevated through treatment and vaccine trials and the contribution of those involved to patient care. This reinforces an invigorated commitment to resources as well as new acceptance of and belief in research as a core care activity across and throughout systems and organisations at all levels.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42010619","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}
Iseult M. Wilson, Nikki Daniels, P. Gillen, K. Casson
{"title":"Perspectives on reporting non-verbal interactions from the contemporary research focus group.","authors":"Iseult M. Wilson, Nikki Daniels, P. Gillen, K. Casson","doi":"10.7748/nr.2022.e1828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2022.e1828","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000The main defining attribute that delineates focus groups from other methods of collecting data is that data are generated through participants communicating with each other rather than solely with the group moderator. The way in which interactions take place across group interviews and focus groups varies, yet both are referred to as focus groups, resulting in a broad umbrella term for its numerous manifestations.\u0000\u0000\u0000AIM\u0000To reflect on how focus groups are adopted and reported, including the use of the term 'focus group'.\u0000\u0000\u0000DISCUSSION\u0000The authors recognise that the term 'focus group' is sometimes used synonymously with 'group interview' but argue that this practice must be challenged. They suggest using terms that indicate the type of space and synchronicity of the focus group, prefixed with 'in-person' or 'conventional' to identify traditional focus groups. They also suggest separating virtual group interviews into 'synchronous' and 'asynchronous', based on whether the participants and researchers can engage with each other in real time.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000There is a need for qualitative researchers to reach a consensus about the nature of focus groups and group interviews, as well as where their differences and similarities lie.\u0000\u0000\u0000IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE\u0000The authors hope to encourage nurse researchers to think about these issues when labelling, planning, analysing and reporting studies involving focus groups.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43989834","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":"Top tips for using social media in research","authors":"C. Stephen, L. Halcomb","doi":"10.7748/nr.30.1.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.30.1.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42291008","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}