Aim To provide examples of a qualitative multiple case study to illustrate the specific
strategies that can be used to ensure the credibility, dependability, confirmability and …

OBJECTIVE: to explore the challenges of conducting an observational study of postnatal
interactions, between midwives and women, when the researcher was a midwife observing …

Objectives The literature contains few accounts of how access to a research site and
participants in medical and nursing research is gained, and few efforts to synthesise the …

The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those that perform
exceptionally well. Positive deviance as an approach to quality improvement is gaining …

Women executives face many barriers to career advancement, which then limits the
advancement of women lower down the hierarchy. This study looks at the secretive and elite …

Ethical issues in nursing research are identified and the perspectives for nursing ethics are
offer in an effort to develop an ethical behaviour in research. A human subject gives rise to a …

The focus of this methodological paper is to discuss the challenges of conducting fieldwork,
using reflections from our experiences of accessing a research site for ethnographic data …

Developing new services is a commonplace responsibility for music therapists worldwide.
Starting a job often entails being the first music therapist in a facility, and even the first music …

brown wilson c.(2011) The value of reflexivity in resolving ethical dilemmas research in care
homes. Journal of Advanced Nursing 67 (9), 2068–2077. Abstract Aim. This paper highlights …

Background In recent years, proactive strengths-based approaches to improving quality of
care have been advocated. The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from …