Using the internet to conduct research
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Using the internet to conduct research

Nancy R Ahern Doctoral Student and Nursing Instructor, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA

The internet has become an everyday communication tool for countless people throughout the world. It has a variety of potential uses in education, practice and research, but only in the last decade have nurse researchers begun to take advantage of the multiple uses the internet has to offer. The author reviews the uses of the internet to conduct research and addresses challenges and issues that currently influence web-based research

Nurse Researcher. 13, 2, 55-70. doi: 10.7748/nr.13.2.55.s7

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