Student nurses have always learnt from qualified staff, in the past on the wards under matron and more recently on placement fro university. With job opportunities for nurses growing ever-more varied, Emily Carney explains what it was like to spend some time with a tissue viability team in Worcestershire...
Clinicians often find it difficult to devote sufficient time to develop proposals that will investigate issues that enhance the patient experience. Thus, clinicians need to access researchers and academics who can assist in developing research proposals, undertake service evaluation, audit current practice, provide advice on best practice and offer education that maintains clinical knowledge and skills.
The University of Huddersfield recognised the challenges faced by clinicians in undertaking research in the specialist area of skin, and in 2011 formed the Skin Interface Sciences (SIS) Research Group. This article outlines its development and achievements to date.
Karen Ousey, Reader, PhD, RGN, School of Human and Health Sciences, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. E-Mail: k.j.ousey@hud.ac.uk
Ross Atkinson, PhD, Spinal Research, Coordinator – Greater Manchester, Neurosciences Centre & Honorary Research Associate – The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford
Leigh Fleming, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Barbara Conway, PhD, Professor, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Skin Interface Sciences Research Group, University of Huddersfield: sisgroup@hud.ac.uk
Article accepted for publication: December 2012
Nurses working in the community may have insufficient time to access, interpret and apply research, and, therefore, need information to be presented in a format that is easily accessible. As community nurses rise to the challenges outlined in recent health policy, it is increasingly important that they maximise their potential to deliver evidence-based practice. This article looks at a survey that aimed to identify factors influencing evidence-based practice among community nurses. The findings indicate that in order to make progress it is important to adopt a multifaceted approach, taking into account the real world in which nurses currently practice. While it is important to develop nurses’ skills in accessing and reviewing research information, constraints on time mean that it will be difficult to achieve a nursing workforce where all nurses are active in reviewing research evidence.
Kate Gerrish, Professor of Nursing Research, University of Sheffield/Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Jo Cooke, Programme Manager NIHR Collaborations and Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for South Yorkshire (CLAHRC SY), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Jane Hampton, Jo Higgins & Vikki Cronin describe the difficulties they encountered when undertaking a research project involving housebound people.
Chris Buswell describes the benefits of journal clubs as a means of continuing nurse education and knowledge.
In the first of our new research series John Playle defines the nature of research as a basis for nursing practice.
John F. Playle MSc, BSc(Hons), RN, Dip Counselling, CPN Cert, RNT Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing Studies, The University of Manchester, Manchester.
Article accepted for publication November 1999.
John Playle explores how samples for research based studies are selected.
John F. Playle MSc, BSc (Hons), RN, Dip Counselling, CPN Cert, RNT Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing Studies, The University of Manchester.
Article accepted for publication March 2000.
In the next in our series of research articles, John Playle explores the general meanings of research design, distinguishing design from data collection methods.
John F. Playle MSc, BSc(Hons), RN, Dip Counselling, CPN Cert, RNT, Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing Studies, The University of Manchester.
Article accepted for publication March 2000.
John Playle outlines the general nature of ecperiments and dgives an overview of some common ecperimatal design used in social research.
John F. Playle MSc, BSc (Hons), RN, Dip Counselling, CPN Cert, RNT is a Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing Studies, The University of Manchester.
Article accepted for publication June 2000.
