Nurse ResearcherPub Date : 2021-12-09Epub Date: 2021-11-22DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1806
Lorna Chesterton, Kirsten Jack
{"title":"Using Heidegger's philosophy of dasein to support person-centred research.","authors":"Lorna Chesterton, Kirsten Jack","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1806","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Locating and explicating philosophical frameworks, which enable a person-centred approach, is important for nurses undertaking research to respect and value participants during the process. This reflects the ideals of person-centred care.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To explore how Heidegger's philosophical concept of dasein and its relationship with the hermeneutic circle can support person-centred research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Dasein is described as 'being in the world' and encourages thinking about the ways in which people are bound to their surroundings and history. Understanding and applying it to nursing research is important as it enables researchers to explore the 'lifeworld' of another and promotes person-centred research practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Developing a person-centred approach to research can be achieved by using Heidegger's concept of dasein, which can enable the development of insight into another person's lifeworld.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Understanding the concept of dasein enables nurse researchers to undertake person-centred research. Dasein recognises individuals in the holistic context of their world and values what is important to them. Situating findings contextually allows nurse researchers to influence nursing practice and policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 4","pages":"27-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39757346","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 : 2021-12-09Epub Date: 2021-08-19DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1786
Jane Fletcher, Amelia Swift, Martin Hewison, Sheldon C Cooper
{"title":"Patient and public involvement in research design and oversight.","authors":"Jane Fletcher, Amelia Swift, Martin Hewison, Sheldon C Cooper","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In recent years, the value of patient and public involvement (PPI) in developing research has become apparent. Patients and service users have insights that are essential to successfully developing and completing research. PPI collaborations may improve the scope, quality, relevance and impact of research. Nevertheless, there are challenges for nurse researchers in ensuring effective PPI is embedded in research proposals and practice.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To discuss the practical aspects of developing a PPI group, including one approach to convening a PPI group, and provide examples of where a PPI group has refined and improved the design of research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Directly inviting patients and members of the public to collaborate in the research resulted in successful working relationships and tangible improvements to a study's methodology. None of the patients approached had considered collaborating in research before and so would not have been reached by any other means.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There are several approaches nurse researchers can take to convene a PPI group, including open forums and relevant charity groups. The authors' experience was broadly successful, although future research would involve collaboration with other teams to recruit more diverse groups.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Nurse researchers are ideally placed to collaborate with patients and members of the public in designing and delivering research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 4","pages":"11-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39324842","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 : 2021-09-09Epub Date: 2021-08-05DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1778
Mary Drozd, Darren Chadwick, Rebecca Jester
{"title":"Successful strategies for including adults with intellectual disabilities in research studies that use interpretative phenomenological analysis.","authors":"Mary Drozd, Darren Chadwick, Rebecca Jester","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1778","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adults with intellectual disabilities are not often asked to participate in health research. This may be because researchers perceive them as unable to participate meaningfully with or without significant support and anticipate difficulty in obtaining ethical approval because of issues concerning consent and mental capacity. This means that the voices of adults with intellectual disabilities are often missing from health research and their experiences and views are unexplored.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To share successful strategies for accessing, recruiting and collecting data from a purposive sample of adults with intellectual disabilities from a study that used interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>IPA is a person-centred, flexible and creative approach to research. Meaningful collaboration with people with intellectual disabilities, their families, carers, advocacy group managers, specialists in intellectual disability services and research supervisors was vital to the success of the study. The authors share practical strategies for including people with intellectual disabilities, from the perspective of a novice researcher who is an outsider to the field of intellectual disability.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It is important to include people with intellectual disabilities in healthcare research. This article presents a framework to support researchers outside the specialist field of intellectual disabilities in achieving this.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Personal views and perceptions of healthcare are important if health services are to meet individual needs. Adults with intellectual disabilities often receive poor healthcare and have poorer outcomes. This will be perpetuated without their input into research. People with intellectual disabilities can make valuable contributions to the evidence base.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 3","pages":"34-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39277212","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":"Methodological issues and methods in doctoral studies: tips and advice for success","authors":"L. Halcomb, K. Peters","doi":"10.7748/nr.29.3.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.29.3.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46646489","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":"Peer-review: some tips for doing it well","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.29.3.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.29.3.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46981581","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 : 2021-09-09Epub Date: 2021-06-17DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1794
Gemma Elizabeth Aburn, Merryn Gott, Karen Hoare
{"title":"Experiences of an insider researcher - interviewing your own colleagues.","authors":"Gemma Elizabeth Aburn, Merryn Gott, Karen Hoare","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1794","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The literature has described researching people you know or being an 'insider' researcher in a variety of settings. However, the literature has largely focused on the challenges and risks associated with researching in your own community, and has neglected to articulate the benefits for research studies and participants.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To summarise the literature looking at the role of the insider researcher and explore reflections about insider research made by participants in a constructionist grounded theory study.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This article reflects on the participant-researcher relationship in a grounded theory study exploring staff experiences of working in children's blood and cancer centres in New Zealand. It uses participants' reflections to further the discussion of the benefits of being an insider researcher, in the context of interviewing your own colleagues.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The challenges of being an insider researcher include the potential for power differentials in relationships with participants, the risk of assumed understanding and the challenge for the researcher of managing emotional burden. These challenges can be minimised by writing reflective memos throughout the research. The benefits of being an insider researcher include the ability to rapidly develop rapport with participants, and participation as a cathartic and therapeutic process for participants.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Reflective practice is critical and essential when undertaking nursing research as an insider researcher.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 3","pages":"22-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39239260","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 : 2021-09-09Epub Date: 2021-04-29DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1788
Natalie Ann Cutler, Elizabeth Halcomb, Jenny Sim
{"title":"Using naturalistic inquiry to inform qualitative description.","authors":"Natalie Ann Cutler, Elizabeth Halcomb, Jenny Sim","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1788","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Choosing how to answer a research question requires an understanding of philosophical and theoretical assumptions and how these inform a study's methodology and methods. This can be a challenge for all researchers, but for novice researchers, such as doctoral candidates, this can feel like an overwhelming task. Ensuring there is clear alignment between philosophy, theory, methodology and methods is an essential part of the research process, that enables research to be undertaken with clarity and integrity. This alignment must be a good fit for the research aim, and to ensure the researcher's intrinsic values and beliefs do not affect the analysis undertaken.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe the alignment between qualitative description and naturalistic inquiry and how it was applied to a doctoral candidate's exploration of the meaning of safety for people with experience of admission to an acute mental health unit.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Understanding the alignment between qualitative descriptive methodology and naturalistic inquiry provided a clear pathway for the doctoral candidate.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The assumptions that underpin a methodological approach need to be unpacked to understand how to answer a research question effectively.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Qualitative description, informed by naturalistic inquiry, offers a practical way to explore and answer research questions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 3","pages":"29-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38874375","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 : 2021-09-09Epub Date: 2021-07-01DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1789
Emma Radbron, Tanya McCance, Rebekkah Middleton, Valerie Wilson
{"title":"Maintaining momentum in action research.","authors":"Emma Radbron, Tanya McCance, Rebekkah Middleton, Valerie Wilson","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Action research (AR) provides a robust platform for collaboration to develop and evaluate nursing practice. It results in several outcomes, including changes in evidence-based practice, the development of research capacity, and the evaluation and sustainability of interventions, all of which can be seen as benefits compared to other approaches. However, the methodology involves cycles of action, reflection, theory and practice, so it can be challenging to maintain momentum when engaging with teams over long periods of time.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To offer strategies for maintaining momentum when using AR in nursing research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Three strategies for maintaining momentum when undertaking AR are covered. Theory, literature and experience of using AR in which the strategies of 'connecting as people', 'working with the context' and 'understanding the influence of the leadership team' made a considerable difference in maintaining momentum and are drawn on.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Maintaining momentum in studies that use AR can be arduous, but critical reflection enables researchers to identify and overcome the challenges that arise. Researchers undertaking AR can apply the three strategies provided or other approaches to maintain momentum during all phases of a study.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Maintaining momentum in AR studies is more successful when researchers connect with those with whom they are undertaking research. It is advantageous for nurse researchers to reflect on and understand the influence of the leadership team and context rather than try to adapt them to the study's or their own needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 3","pages":"15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39128714","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 : 2021-09-09Epub Date: 2021-05-27DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1787
Jayne Murphy, Jonathan Hughes, Sue Read, Sue Ashby
{"title":"Evidence and practice: a review of vignettes in qualitative research.","authors":"Jayne Murphy, Jonathan Hughes, Sue Read, Sue Ashby","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1787","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Developing and working through a PhD research study requires tenacity, continuous development and application of knowledge. It is paramount when researching sensitive topics to consider carefully the construction of tools for collecting data, to ensure the study is ethically robust and explicitly addresses the research question.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To explore how novice researchers can develop insight into aspects of the research process by developing vignettes as a research tool.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This article focuses on the use of vignettes to collect data as part of a qualitative PhD study investigating making decisions in the best interests of and on behalf of people with advanced dementia. Developing vignettes is a purposeful, conscious process. It is equally important to ensure that vignettes are derived from literature, have an evidence base, are carefully constructed and peer-reviewed, and are suitable to achieve the research's aims.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Using and analysing a vignette enables novice researchers to make sense of aspects of the qualitative research process and engage with it to appreciate terminology.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Vignettes can provide an effective platform for discussion when researching topics where participants may be reluctant to share sensitive real-life experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 3","pages":"8-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39021967","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}