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The value of qualitative research

08 September 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes the dual nature of nursing research. It describes how qualitative research can present the patient’s experience in a way that quantitative...

Ethics in nursing: the way forward

30 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This series of articles has been developed with the intention of increasing nurses’ awareness of ethics and ethical decision-making and clarifying the relationship...

Preparing undergraduates for practice placements in gerontological nursing

27 November 2007

Nursing Older People

Care

An innovative approach was employed to help undergraduate student nurses prepare for a practice placement working with older people. The method involved the use of...

The essence of nursing: part II

03 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & science research

In the second of two articles examining the essence of nursing, Alison Kitson examines what it might look like in practice. The first part was published in last...

Research philosophy and Socrates: rediscovering the birth of phenomenology

01 October 2008

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

The number of phenomenological studies published in nursing journals is rising, perhaps because phenomenology provides answers to or insights into important...

Qualitative meta-synthesis: a guide for the novice

01 January 2008

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

An ancient Buddhist parable details the attempts of several blind men to describe an elephant. On feeling the trunk, one proclaims it to be rather like a snake;...

Exploring how Heideggerian philosophy underpins phenomenolgical research

01 July 2010

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

This paper demonstrates the methodological implications of using Heideggerian philosophy to inform a phenomenological study of the experience of memory loss. In...

Science and early development of mental health nursing

21 August 1996

Nursing Standard

Mental health

Perhaps the most significant influence on the evolution of mental health nursing as a discrete profession in the UK was the establishment of the asylum system in the...

Chronic resistant atypical pedagogical syndrome: a new disorder

01 October 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

In this exploratory clinical paper I outline a ‘pedagogical syndrome’ that has emerged from postmodernist, but, especially, contemporary educational angst. In...

Reclaiming nursing: making it personal

01 June 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

Few ideas in psychiatry gain acceptance overnight. It took 50 years for Albert Ellis’s rational emotive therapy and Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy to gain acceptance...