Nurse ResearcherPub Date : 2021-12-09Epub Date: 2021-09-16DOI: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1804
Lisa S Whiting, Julia Petty, Brian Littlechild, Sam Rogers
{"title":"Undertaking pre-pilot work to gain an empathetic insight into participants' perspectives.","authors":"Lisa S Whiting, Julia Petty, Brian Littlechild, Sam Rogers","doi":"10.7748/nr.2021.e1804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Being an empathetic researcher can be crucial in understanding participants' perspectives. However, while the need for empathy is recognised in qualitative interview research, there is less acknowledgement of its value with other methods of collecting data. Researchers can face various challenges when the instruments and approaches used to collect data are new to them. The value of researchers acting as participants when undertaking pre-pilot work are not be underestimated.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To provide a reflective account of the pre-pilot work undertaken by the authors before their main study.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Pre-pilot work that involves the researchers as participants can develop cultural competence, as well as empathetic insight into participants' perspectives, thus enabling them to refine and strengthen their main study.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It takes time when planning research to incorporate appropriate pre-pilot work that assists personal training and learning. However, this can pay dividends in terms of the empathetic insight gained for the refinement of the proposed study. Pre-pilot work and a reflective approach can strengthen rigour, as well as assist in planning research and collecting data.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Experienced researchers may be novices at using specific tools or methods of collecting data. Pre-pilot work enables a greater understanding and deeper appreciation of participants' perspectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":"29 4","pages":"19-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39423734","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":"Silence and the narrative research interview","authors":"Philip John Archard, M. O’Reilly","doi":"10.7748/nr.29.4.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.29.4.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43077756","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":"Clinical research: how getting involved gives your professional development a boost","authors":"H. Jarman","doi":"10.7748/nr.29.4.9.s3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.29.4.9.s3","url":null,"abstract":"Research is at the centre of evidence-based practice and has never been more visible, with the pandemic highlighting its value in developing life-saving and preventative treatments, including the COVID-19 vaccine.","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45009677","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":"Strategic plan promises real change for nurses","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.29.4.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.29.4.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49539055","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: 2021-11-22DOI: 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}