Research never develops in a vacuum, hence a discussion of the status of research in a country cannot be limited to a single point of time, nor can it be properly understood without reference to issues and events which have influenced its past and present status. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the development of nursing research in South Africa and of the current nursing...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain consensus on priorities for oncology nursing research in the United Kingdom.
. DESIGN A three-round online Delphi survey.
. SETTING Oncology nurses were invited via the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) database. Patient participation was invited through patient organizations.
. SAMPLE 50 oncology nurses and 18 patients.
. METHODS Eligible and ...

The project "Evidence-based Nursing Education - Preparatory Stage", funded by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg within the programme Impulsfinanzierung Forschung (Funding to Stimulate Research), aims to collect information on current research concerned with nursing education and to process existing data. The results of empirical research which has already been carried out were systematically...

The title of Dr. Laurie Gottlieb’s editorial in a recent issue of CJNR devoted exclusively to student research reports says it all — “The Quality of Student Papers Augurs Well for the Future of Nursing Research” (Gottlieb, 2002, p. 3). As Dr. Gottlieb remarks, the papers indicate that nursing students are using a diversity of research methods, participating in their supervisors’ research progra...

This issue of RINAH features one of our occasional guest editorials, this one from Dr. Margaret Grey, who offers her expert advice to new researchers about how to seek funding, a message that seems timely as NIH, and NINR in particular, experience somewhat higher levels of funding in the current budget year. Her comments are adapted from remarks made on April 9, 1999, at the 11th Annual Meeting...

1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Paramedical, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 2Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Nursing, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehra...

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES IN OSTEOARTHRITIS MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Mozhgan Behshid, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Alireza Irajpoor. PhD student, Research Center of Medical Education, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing & Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences; PhD, Professor, Ta...

Research enriches pediatric nursing practice through the translation of the best evidence for practice – making this connection is essential for improving the quality of pediatric nursing. GENERATING AND DISCOVERING new knowledge is critical for the development of evidence to improve pediatric nursing practice. The power of research is that it provides the evidence to develop best practices to ...

Undergraduate nursing research courses should emphasize the statistics most commonly used in the nursing literature to strengthen students' and beginning researchers' understanding of them. To determine the most commonly used statistics, we reviewed all quantitative research articles published in 13 nursing journals in 2000. The findings supported Beitz's categorization of kinds of statistics. ...

1. Department of Nursing, University of Lleida, Spain 2. Department of Nursing, GESEC (Grup d’Estudis Societat Salut Educcació) Research Group, University of Lleida, Spain; Hospital Foundation Santa Creu de Vic, Barcelona, Spain 3. Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, Nursing School of Coimbra; The Portugal Centre for Evidence-Based Practice: a Collaborating Center of the Joanna Briggs Insti...