Preparing for the Unanticipated: Challenges in Conducting Semi-Structured, In-Depth Interviews

Scanlan, Camilla Louise

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“…This kind of interviews is useful when detailed information about a person’s views is required. Semi-structed interviews allow the study participants to provide wealth of information by answering spontaneously on complex matters [ 19 ]. Data collection was carried out from February until June 2020.…”

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What Quality of Care Means? Exploring Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions on the Concept of Quality Care: A Qualitative Study

Stavropoulou

Rovithis

Kelesi

et al. 2022

Clinics and Practice

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Quality is a multidimensional issue involving various features that depend on service performance and personal assessment. Clarifying the concept of quality is essential in order to further facilitate the understanding and improvement of quality in healthcare. The purpose of this study was to investigate how clinical nurses, providing care to adult medical patients, perceive and define the concept of quality nursing care. A descriptive qualitative research design was applied. A purposive sampling strategy was used to recruit nurses from the clinical sector of a general public hospital in Athens, Greece. Ten female nurses from the medical sector participated the study. Data collection was conducted through in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze the verbatim data. Four categories were revealed from the data analysis, namely: (a) “Quality care is holistic care”, (b) “Good care is an interpersonal issue”, (c) “Leadership is crucial”, and (d) “Best care is our responsibility”. Quality care was defined as holistic care, addressing all patient needs with competency and aiming for the best patient outcomes. It was associated with communication, teamwork, good leadership, and personal commitment. By developing an in-depth and mutual understanding about what quality means, nurse leaders and practitioners may collaborate in finding common paths to support quality interventions and enhance quality nursing care in clinical practice.

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confidence: 99%

What Quality of Care Means? Exploring Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions on the Concept of Quality Care: A Qualitative Study

Stavropoulou

Rovithis

Kelesi

et al. 2022

Clinics and Practice

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“…Qualitative descriptive studies usually use semi-structured interviews with open-end questions either with individuals or with focus groups but also can be individual and focus group interviews. Semi-structured in-depth interviews allow a deep exploration of participants’ perspectives about a particular topic, while assessing their individual understanding, values, beliefs, experiences, and perceptions [ 22 , 23 ]. In this study, in-depth interviews (IDIs) with nurse educators and nurse preceptors were conducted to get insightful views about the factors that affect the facilitation they provide to nursing students learning PPM.…”

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Exploring factors affecting the facilitation of nursing students to learn paediatric pain management in Rwanda: A descriptive qualitative study

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Nurse educators and nurse preceptors play a fundamental role in facilitating nursing students’ acquisition and utilization of professional competencies. Previous studies about key elements for teaching and learning about pain in nursing education programs include students’ personal characteristics and previous experiences; educators’ knowledge, skills, and beliefs; learners’ exposure to leaders in pain education; and curricular pain content and delivery approaches. These studies were mainly carried out in developed countries, with a context of educational and health care systems different from those of developing countries. The current study explores academics’, clinical nurse preceptors’, and nursing students’ perceptions about factors influencing the facilitation of nursing students’ competency for paediatric pain management in Rwanda. A qualitative descriptive exploratory design was used in this study that utilized in-depth interviews with six nurse educators and eight nurse preceptors, and focus group discussions with nineteen senior year nursing students. The study setting included five sites: two academic institutions and three clinical settings. Narratives from participants were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. The analysis yielded six themes describing factors that affected the facilitation of students’ learning about paediatric pain management. The themes included student motivation, facilitators’ attributes, collaboration between academics and clinicians, nurses’ limited autonomy for decision-making regarding PPM practices, shortage of human and material resources, and educational qualification. Knowing these factors is essential as it provides an opportunity to design targeted interventions aimed to enhance the capacity of nurse educators and clinical nurse preceptors involved in teaching nursing students about paediatric pain management.

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“…A general interview guide was applied, making sure that the same areas of information were part of the interviews and the focus in each interview was kept on child care distribution and enrolment procedures. All interviews were semistructured in-depth interviews (Scanlan, 2020) with the exception of four focus group interviews: Interestingly, in all four municipalities the responsible authority the researcher contacted preferred group interviews over individual interviews and strongly suggested to include responsible staff instead of interviewing only the head of department. This resulted in focus group interviews with numbers of participants ranging from two to six interviewees.…”

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Allowing for segregation in ECEC? Legal conditions, administrative structures and enrolment practice in Germany

Nebe

2022

J Child Edu Soc

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Supposedly children are to learn together in surroundings mirroring the overall democratic and diverse make-up of society. Segregation in ECEC is undesirable. However, substantial segregation exists - even in systems designed for universal, high-quality ECEC provision. While some research has already carved out the role of parents´ choice of institutions, little is known about how children are selected by institutions. This article attempts to shed light on institutional choice as a variable for segregation. Including a detailed picture of the German ECEC system and pointing out administrative relations between municipalities and providers in Germany, this article will depict enrolment. It will draw an empirically based ‘tryptich’, focusing on municipalities´, provider organisation managers` and ECEC centre managers` views on enrolment. Findings will lead to a call for providers and municipalities to join efforts in order to design and implement enrolment procedures that prevent segregation.

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Preparing for the Unanticipated: Challenges in Conducting Semi-Structured, In-Depth Interviews

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What Quality of Care Means? Exploring Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions on the Concept of Quality Care: A Qualitative Study

What Quality of Care Means? Exploring Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions on the Concept of Quality Care: A Qualitative Study

Exploring factors affecting the facilitation of nursing students to learn paediatric pain management in Rwanda: A descriptive qualitative study

Allowing for segregation in ECEC? Legal conditions, administrative structures and enrolment practice in Germany

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