Contributions of International Nursing Research

International survey of nursing home research priorities.

This article reports the findings of a policy survey designed to establish research priorities to inform future research strategy and advance nursing home practice. The survey was administered in 2 rounds during 2013, and involved a combination of open questions and ranking exercises to move toward consensus on the research priorities. A key finding was the prioritization of research to underpi...

RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2017

International conference: community health nursing research.

This year we have a change of President, we would like to pass our sincere thanks to Professor Jean McIntosh, OBE who has provided wonderful inspiration to community health nursing researchers for many decades and has been a real figurehead for ICCHNR. Jean now passes the baton to Professor Fiona Ross whom we warmly welcome as ICCHNR President and we look forward to developing a new relationshi...

Building an international nursing outcomes research agenda.

A program of research begins with a good idea that materializes into a series of studies that carry the same theme. Each study builds upon the last, expanding on the findings to generate new questions, thus building the evidence base. The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has built a 20-year program of research that has made great strides in establishing the evidence base that prof...

Contributions of qualitative research to evidence-based practice in nursing.

AIM This article aims to identify the contributions of qualitative research to evidence-based practice in nursing. BACKGROUND Qualitative research dates back to the 1920s and 1930s, when anthropologists and sociologists used qualitative research methods to study human phenomena in naturalistic settings and from a holistic viewpoint. Afterwards, other subject matters, including nursing, adopte...