J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
January 2012
Nurse educators are obligated to design protocols that include ethical sensitivity when conducting education research using students as participants. Because students are vulnerable to the power differential between them and faculty, the principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, veracity, and justice can help researchers make choices that are intended to preserve the trust and respect formed during this collegial relationship. This article presents the basic assumptions and examples of how these principles have been applied to nursing education research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInteractive teaching is conceptually analyzed using the strategies of Walker and Avant to promote a common understanding of interactive teaching and to clearly explicate interactive teaching characteristics that will foster the construct validity of using interactive teaching in pedagogical research. In doing so, nurse researchers will be able to better understand and integrate interactive teaching into their research protocols, ultimately providing evidence for educators to use in determining the most effective teaching methods to incorporate into curricula. Interactive teaching is defined and examined using relevant sources; related concepts are analyzed and compared with these definitions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
June 2007
Objectives: To evaluate diagnostic methods used to detect occiput posterior and to describe the efficacy of posturing to enhance rotation from occiput posterior to occiput anterior.
Data Sources: Keyword search using PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Review, and Dissertation Abstracts International.
Study Selection: Studies published from 1996 to 2006 (except one published in 1983) that focused on the use of ultrasonography versus digital vaginal examination to diagnose fetal position and maternal posturing to enhance rotation from occiput posterior to occiput anterior.
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
December 2002
Objective: To discover what influences women in the decision to deliver via vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
Design: Descriptive and qualitative, influenced by principles of phenomenology and using content analysis to describe the lived experiences of women who choose VBAC.
Setting: Women were recruited from a postpartum unit in a hospital in the rural southeastern United States.