Sample Size Planning in Quantitative Nursing Research.

Am J Nurs

Alexa Colgrove Curtis is associate dean of academic affairs and faculty development and Courtney Keeler is an associate professor, both at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. Contact author: Alexa Colgrove Curtis, Bernadette Capili, PhD, NP-C, is the column coordinator: This manuscript was supported in part by grant No. UL1TR001866 from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: November 2023

Editor's note: This is the 18th article in a series on clinical research by nurses. The series is designed to be used as a resource for nurses to understand the concepts and principles essential to research. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice-from research design to data interpretation. To see all the articles in the series, go to https://links.lww.com/AJN/A204.

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