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Design representing facets of research, including scales for balance and a lightbulb denoting new ideas. Ethical approval is an opportunity to refine your research design and strengthen the quality, credibility and impact of your study.

Pre-planning includes integrity training and ensuring a study builds on existing knowledge

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Offers like a free $50 gift card for participants in research raise questions about why people are taking part and the veracity of the research

Recruiting for research via social media raised questions of integrity, trust and ethics

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Research seems to be the pillar where many advanced practitioners ‘just don’t know how or where to get started’

A new advanced practice research toolkit aims to address the research challenges

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Journal clubs: the participatory, interactive and operational approach of such a club could help to produce more scientific studies   Journal clubs: the participatory, interactive and operational approach of such a club could help to produce more scientif

Clubs give updates on literature, assist in clinical practice and boost critical reading

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Image shows an illustration of hands reaching up towards an open book: time for nurse research is often a casualty of high workloads and low staffing levels, but it is important to actively promote the value of developing and advancing nursing knowledge

Nurses should work together to ensure the new world is a positive place

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A survey’s success is dependent on a good response rate, asking the right questions, and ensuring respondents' answers are similar to the way people think and act in reality
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Key components include content, look and feel, as well as pilot testing

Expert advice

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A nurse in scrubs sits while taking a break, looking tired and fanning her face with her eyes closed as she struggles with symptoms of menopause during a shift

Most nurses will experience menopause and new guidance says employers have a duty to help<

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Illustration of a nurse looking down and demotivated, holding a mask showing a brave face, which she is putting on her own face

Finding ways to boost morale and reaching out to peers can help you get back on track

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Steps you can take to protect your mind and body from the demands of the job

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Certain terms have the power to belittle or frighten patients, and even affect outcomes

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Tips on honing your communication skills to improve outcomes

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A review may lead to regulation of the title, a move seen as important for patient safety<

Editorial

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Nursing networks: sharing ideas and working collaboratively can be transformative

Stepping outside your comfort zone and engaging with others can be transformative

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Nurse researchers can feel overwhelmed by work demands and perceive themselves as failures, rather than identifying workplace harms

Take time to consider the effects your work has on mental and physical health

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Supervisors can bring a range of methodological and research methods expertise to research studies
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A good supervision team can bring experience, support and expertise to nursing research

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Nurse research: GenAI collects data from the internet, but while using predominantly publicly available information it can be biased, outdated and focus on debatable information
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AI can help, but there are research integrity, quality, copyright and data security risks<

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The expertise and experience of academics is vital to support workforce capacity

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Research supervisors can make a huge contribution to boost student confidence and performa

Your views

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Confidential patient records: a woman looking at files on a laptop and holding a mobile phone in her hand that displays a padlock

Without such boundaries, public trust in the nursing profession would be compromised

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Revisions to nursing bands may make little difference without appropriate pay rises

Reviews

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This book provides a concise and informative guide to the process of literature review in

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The chapters in this book vary in the depth, nature and quality of historical research the

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Bibliometrics

If you are undertaking a research module or degree requiring statistics, then this textboo

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Action Research for Nurses

The authors of this long overdue book offer a cogent critique of the current body of nursi

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Applied Qualitative Research Design

This book is suffused with the elements of what the authors call the total quality framewo

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Covering three central ideas– research is about learning, should be purposeful and must be

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