“…While there are empirical studies of whistleblowing in nursing (Ahern & McDonald 2002, Jackson et al 2010a,b, Peters et al 2011) few studies have involved nursing students' views about peer reporting, an aspect of whistleblowing and patient safety. The use of case studies in nursing research, particularly in investigating the nursing students' views on hypothetical scenarios and their willingness to speak up their concerns, has already been utilised (Mansbach et al 2013), and has been shown to be a powerful method for soliciting nursing students' views on such issues. Potential disparities between an individual's beliefs and their actual behaviour, however, cannot be ruled out (Marsden & Wright 2010).…”