1 Acapella Device
Skill 1 Acapella Device The Acapella is a handheld airway clearance device that provides positive expiratory pressure (PEP) with oral airway oscillations to aid sputum clearance. PEP stabilizes airways and…
2 Apical-Radial Pulse
Skill 2 Apical-Radial Pulse The difference between pulses assessed from two different sites is known as a pulse deficit. When a pulse deficit is assessed between the apical and radial…
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
What is a focus group? A focus group in nursing research involves a number of people – often with common experiences or characteristics – who are interviewed by a researcher…
Writing up Qualitative Research
The research account Writing the report of the research is an important task for the researcher; the presentation is in the public domain and can be reviewed by others. Researchers…
Establishing Quality: Trustworthiness or Validity
Quality All research is rightly open to scrutiny from its readers. Health researchers too must not only consider the ‘truth value’ of their studies but also demonstrate that it is…
Data Analysis: Procedures, Practices and Computers
The process of data analysis Qualitative data analysis (QDA) is a complex, non-linear process but also systematic, orderly and structured. Not all qualitative forms of inquiry take the same approach…
Mixed Methods: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research
The nature of mixed methods studies Mixed methods research (MMR) means the use of both qualitative and quantitative approaches in one empirical study. (It must be noted, however, that mixed…
Additional Approaches
Case study research The term ‘case study’ is used for a research approach with specific boundaries and can be both qualitative and quantitative. Stake (2000) states that much qualitative research…
Action Research
What is action research? Action research (AR) is a type of inquiry generally undertaken by practitioners who become researchers, or who work in partnership with university researchers, to examine issues…
Phenomenology
Intentionality and the early stages of phenomenology Phenomenology begins with Husserl who was the core figure in the development of phenomenology as a modern movement. It is important, however, to…
