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Power and control over children and young people

01 July 2003

Paediatric Nursing

CPD

This feature introduces you to theories of control and power and invites you to relate these to your own practice with children and young people and the values of...

Power and control over children and young people

01 October 2003

Primary Health Care

CPD

This feature introduces you to theories of control and power and invites you to relate these to your own practice with children and young people and the values of...

The Great Going Nowhere Show: Structural power and mental health nurses

01 November 2000

Mental Health Practice

Feature

An interdisciplinary dialogue has emerged over the last 30 years which suggests that bureaucratic organisations shape professional identity in specific ways....

Focus groups in nursing research: an appropriate method or the latest fad?

01 January 2007

Nurse Researcher

Focus

The use of focus groups as a method of nursing research has increased substantially over the past 20 years. In this paper, Brenda Happell describes a review of...

Being honest

03 October 2006

Nursing Standard

General article

Integrity means adhering to high moral principles or professional standards, but there are barriers to achieving and maintaining it in nursing.

Informed, involved and influential: three Is of shared decision making

10 December 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Collaboration between service users and mental health professionals is at the heart of values-based practice and shared decision making. However, there has been...

Explaining why nurses remain in or leave bedside nursing: a critical ethnography

24 September 2014

Nurse Researcher

Ethnography

Aim To describe the application of critical ethnography to explain nurses’ decisions to remain in or leave bedside nursing, and to describe researcher positioning...

Theoretical and methodological approaches in discourse analysis

01 December 2004

Nurse Researcher

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis (DA) embodies two main approaches: Foucauldian DA and radical social constructionist DA. Both are underpinned by social constructionism to a...

Balance of power – do patients use researchers to survive hospital?

01 April 2005

Nurse Researcher

General

This paper focuses on the way research study participants interpret their contact with researchers. Much has been made of the unequal power relationship between...

Confidence interval for statistical power using a sample variance estimate

01 September 2013

Nurse Researcher

Hypothesis testing

Aims To improve estimation of statistical power by constructing its confidence interval. Background Statistical power is often computed using a sample variance...