NEONATAL NURSES & CLINICAL RESEARCH

Nurse Led Clinical Research: Neonatal Nurses' Perception and Experiences

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Nurse Led Clinical Research: Neonatal Nurses' Perception and Experiences

Context of the paper

The purpose of New & Bogossian study was to explore the neonatal nurses' perception and experience when they participate, or conduct nurse led clinical research in neonatal nursing.

Research Design

The design used in this study was phenomenological research design in order to discover the clinical neonatal nurses' perceptions and experiences. New & Bogossian used the Heideggarian phenomenology in order to explore the implication and adjoin interpretation to experience helps in better understanding.

There are three key features of this research design which includes semi-structured, audiotape and face-to-face interviews that facilitate in exploring the neonatal nurses' experiences in clinical research. Interviews were conducted outside the work environment of nurses to provide them a comfortable and convenient environment. Interviews were semi-structured, and questions were open-ended structured. Open-ended questions were structured to explore viewpoint and experience of neonatal nurses and provide them an opportunity to freely respond their own words. However, during the interview it was ensured that content roam around areas of relevance. (Harrigan, 2009).

Phenomenology was appropriate because this research design believe that the researchers are unable to detached their presumption or presupposition. In this research design, researchers hold explicit viewpoint. This design was appropriate to gather data regarding the perception and experience of neonatal nurses about the Nurse Led Clinical Research and help in exploring this phenomenon. This design provides flexibility to researchers to ask questions in relation to the previous answer of the participants. As well as this design is iterative, so research questions and data collection can be adjusted based on what is learned (Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2009).

Also, because this research design assists in finding common themes from a broad data collect from interviewing nurses. These common themes were formulated after interviewing four nurses that helps in exploring perception and experience. This design helped in obtaining comprehensive explanations regarding a phenomenon by using a technique of interviews.

This research design embraces the common characteristics of human science research; for example qualitative research value, emphasize on comprehensiveness of experience and a look for experience essences, as well as measure experience and perception as an inseparable and integrated relationship of area under discussion.

Sampling

The sample of five nurses was taken in this study, which were female. Out of five, four were trained registered nurses from Australian hospitals; however one nurse was British registered and trained under British hospital system. Furthermore, they were eligible for senior clinical nurses as they have 12 years of experience in neonatal nursing and aged between 38 to 50 years.

The five nurses involved in this study were all female; four of whom had undertaken their registered nurse training through the hospital system in Australia, the other being a British registered nurse who undertook pre-registration training in the British hospital system. The participants fulfilled the positions of senior clinical nurses to clinical nurse consultants, had a minimum ...