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Doing a research literature review

01 September 1993

Nurse Researcher

Reviewing the literature

Carolyn Mason goes through the steps which will help you successfully complete this fundamental aspect of the research process.

Research in practice: rhetoric or reality?

25 March 1992

Nursing Standard

Clinical nursing research

'Research' has become a fashionable word in nursing circles, but doubts remain about whether nursing is justified in calling itself a research-based profession. The...

NDUs: Can they fit in a market-led service?

28 September 1994

Nursing Standard

Clinical practice development

Since their inception in the early Eighties, nursing development units (NDUs) have expanded in number and influence to the [xiint that the term 'nursing development...

Improving services for people with alcohol-related problems

27 May 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

From March 2007 to April 2008 the Royal College of Nursing supported a project to improve services for people with alcohol-related problems by demonstrating and...

Working in a divided community

04 December 1991

Nursing Standard

Feature health visiting

Health visitors in Northern Ireland work in what is often regarded as the most economically depressed area of the UK, and coexisting with relative poverty there is...

What makes a good leader?

01 December 2006

Primary Health Care

Leadership

One of the most inspiring leaders I have ever met is a district nurse in a small rural Irish border town. Her office has no computer, but it is warm and inviting,...

How to survive a PhD

01 March 1995

Nurse Researcher

Issues in research

Newly qualified Project 2000 nurses obtain a higher education diploma (1), which might be considered the first rung of the academic ladder. Nurse educators and many...

The competence gap

28 May 2014

Nursing Standard

Support in practice

The RCN in Northern Ireland was funded by the Union Learning Fund to look at the learning needs of healthcare assistants in non-unionised environments such as...

The west Belfast experience

01 October 1993

Primary Health Care

Nursing development unit

Nursing Development Units (NDUs) are a growth industry in Britain. The first NDU was established by Alan Pearson in the early 1980s (1), while a decade later, in...