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All is not well with family-centred care

09 May 2017

Nursing Children and Young People

Opinion

Family-centred care is in trouble. For 30 years, hospitals and health services around the world have been trying to implement it.

Why we need ethics committees

01 December 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

Anyone involved in healthcare research needs to be conversant with ethics committees and how they function. This article looks briefly at the historical events that...

The logic of science

01 June 2007

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

All research, be it quantitative or qualitative, is based on the idea that something will be discovered, or explained. Clinical practiceis underpinned by research,...

Falsification

01 September 2007

Paediatric Nursing

A&S Science

This paper is one of a series of student papers written by Linda Shields and Alison Twycross. Alison is Principal Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, Faculty of Health...

Indigenous families’ use of a tertiary children’s hospital in Australia

01 September 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

There has been little research into Australian Indigenous families’ use of a tertiary paediatric hospital in Western Australia. Scrutiny of existing scientific...

Reliability and validity in practice: assessment tools

01 November 2005

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

The concepts of validity and reliability were explored in two previous articles (Twycross and Shields 2004a; 2004b). In this article, we apply those concepts to...

Applying for ethics committee approval

01 May 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

So you have a wonderful topic for a research project, something about which you have become curious while working with children in the community or on the ward. You...

The difference between incidence and prevalence

01 September 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

Epidemiologists study the health of population groups within societies or countries. This information helps plan health programmes, to know how one country’s health...

The difference between quantitative and qualitative research

01 November 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Research update

The first question asked by any researcher with a new topic to study is: ‘What sort of research should I use?’ Reference to the literature can be confusing: so much...

Understanding research: the infant mortality rate

01 April 2003

Paediatric Nursing

A&S Science

The infant mortality rate, or ‘IMR’ is an indicator of the health of a community. But what is it and why is it important? Health researchers, clinicians, community...