Validating the clinical research nursing domain of practice.

Purpose/objectives: To develop and validate a taxonomy for the domain of clinical research nursing.

Design: Survey.

Setting: Clinical research settings in the United States.

Perceptions of activity and vocational status in women with cardiac illness.

The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the perceptions of activity and vocational status in women with cardiac illness. A convenience sample of 20 women with the diagnosis of coronary heart disease or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy participated. Subjects underwent an audiotaped interview, using a semistructured interview guide, which was then transcribed into the Ethnograph software program (Qualis Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT).