Using a mixed methods grounded theory methodology to explain neonatal nurses' professional quality of life.

Evelyn Malone, H; Coyne, I

Using a mixed methods grounded theory methodology to explain neonatal nurses' professional quality of life.

Evelyn Malone, H Coyne, I

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Nurse Res, 2023, 31, (1), pp. 25-32
Issue Date:: 2023-03-08

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dc.contributor.author	Evelyn Malone, H
dc.contributor.author	Coyne, I
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-13T01:23:34Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-18
dc.date.available	2024-03-13T01:23:34Z
dc.date.issued	2023-03-08
dc.identifier.citation	Nurse Res, 2023, 31, (1), pp. 25-32
dc.identifier.issn	1351-5578
dc.identifier.issn	2047-8992
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/176609
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND: Nurse researchers are constantly seeking novel methods of maintaining philosophical congruence while advancing their knowledge of the human condition using paradigmatically diverse means. AIM: To provide an overview of the research philosophies underpinning the mixed methods grounded theory (MM-GT) methodology, illustrate its optimal use and introduce a quality-appraisal tool being developed with reference to extant literature. DISCUSSION: The utility of MM-GT has been effectively demonstrated in the nursing and health literature. Yet, there are examples of how it has been under-used and sub-optimally applied. This article includes a two-phase MM-GT study protocol guided by a pragmatic research philosophy and best practice recommendations that aims to explain neonatal nurses' professional quality of life. CONCLUSION: Optimal use of MM-GT's five essential components - purposive sampling, constant comparative methods with iterative coding and analysis, theoretical saturation, memoing and theory development - combine to produce high-quality, defensible research outputs and new nursing theory. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Research outputs, such as publication and presentation, expounding the multifactorial influences affecting neonatal nurses' professional quality of life will not only benefit the neonatal nursing community but also contribute to the corpus of nursing and midwifery research and enhance the health, well-being and retention of nurses and midwives more broadly.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	RCNI
dc.relation.ispartof	Nurse Res
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dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1110 Nursing
dc.subject.classification	4204 Midwifery
dc.subject.classification	4205 Nursing
dc.subject.mesh	Infant, Newborn
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Nurses, Neonatal
dc.subject.mesh	Grounded Theory
dc.subject.mesh	Quality of Life
dc.subject.mesh	Research Design
dc.subject.mesh	Nursing Theory
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Nursing Theory
dc.subject.mesh	Research Design
dc.subject.mesh	Quality of Life
dc.subject.mesh	Infant, Newborn
dc.subject.mesh	Grounded Theory
dc.subject.mesh	Nurses, Neonatal
dc.subject.mesh	Infant, Newborn
dc.subject.mesh	Humans
dc.subject.mesh	Nurses, Neonatal
dc.subject.mesh	Grounded Theory
dc.subject.mesh	Quality of Life
dc.subject.mesh	Research Design
dc.subject.mesh	Nursing Theory
dc.title	Using a mixed methods grounded theory methodology to explain neonatal nurses' professional quality of life.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	31
utslib.location.activity	England
utslib.for	1110 Nursing
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
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dc.date.updated	2024-03-13T01:23:33Z
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BACKGROUND: Nurse researchers are constantly seeking novel methods of maintaining philosophical congruence while advancing their knowledge of the human condition using paradigmatically diverse means. AIM: To provide an overview of the research philosophies underpinning the mixed methods grounded theory (MM-GT) methodology, illustrate its optimal use and introduce a quality-appraisal tool being developed with reference to extant literature. DISCUSSION: The utility of MM-GT has been effectively demonstrated in the nursing and health literature. Yet, there are examples of how it has been under-used and sub-optimally applied. This article includes a two-phase MM-GT study protocol guided by a pragmatic research philosophy and best practice recommendations that aims to explain neonatal nurses' professional quality of life. CONCLUSION: Optimal use of MM-GT's five essential components - purposive sampling, constant comparative methods with iterative coding and analysis, theoretical saturation, memoing and theory development - combine to produce high-quality, defensible research outputs and new nursing theory. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Research outputs, such as publication and presentation, expounding the multifactorial influences affecting neonatal nurses' professional quality of life will not only benefit the neonatal nursing community but also contribute to the corpus of nursing and midwifery research and enhance the health, well-being and retention of nurses and midwives more broadly.

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