Participate in School Nursing Research: Return Those Questionnaires

Using online questionnaires to conduct nursing research.

This article explores the concept of using online questionnaires to carry out nursing research. It discusses options for nurses who do not have advanced technical IT skills for electronic distribution of survey questionnaires. The general principles of web distribution are explained, and some approaches are evaluated in terms of current access to technology and its ease of use. The article also...

Questionnaires in language teaching research

Questionnaires are often used to examine people’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in language learning and teaching. The data we get from questionnaire research can be especially insightful and satisfying when patterns emerge from a large number of respondents, when apparent differences or similarities are found among groups, or when relationships are ascertained among variables. As researche...

Interdisciplinary research training in a school of nursing.

Although interdisciplinarity has become a favored model of scholarly inquiry, the assumption that interdisciplinary work is intuitive and can be performed without training is short-sighted. This article describes the implementation of an interdisciplinary research training program within a school of nursing. We describe the key elements of the program and the challenges we encountered. From 200...

Creating a research culture in a nursing school.

BACKGROUND Research in nursing schools still falls behind that in other disciplines. Schools need to develop a good research culture, in which those undertaking and supervising research are supported and guided. This requires commitment from management and effective leadership. CONCLUSION To raise awareness the authors explore some of the ways in which a nursing school can foster a positive r...

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