Dr Elaine Ball's Outputs (4)

A social purpose model for nursing (2011)
Journal Article
Ball, E. (2011). A social purpose model for nursing. Nursing Forum, 46(3), 152-156. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6198.2011.00232.x

The very current international debate regarding the construction of professional role-identity in nursing involves analysis of context, competency, reflection, and theory; what most of the literature shows is that nursing continues to struggle with i... Read More about A social purpose model for nursing.

Plethora or paucity : a systematic search and bibliometric study of the application and design of qualitative methods in nursing research 2008-2010 (2011)
Journal Article
Ball, E., McLoughlin, M., & Darvill, A. (2011). Plethora or paucity : a systematic search and bibliometric study of the application and design of qualitative methods in nursing research 2008-2010. Nurse Education Today, 31(3), 299-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2010.12.002

Qualitative methodology has increased in application and acceptability in all research disciplines. In nursing, it is appropriate that a plethora of qualitative methods can be found as nurses pose real-world questions to clinical, cultural and ethica... Read More about Plethora or paucity : a systematic search and bibliometric study of the application and design of qualitative methods in nursing research 2008-2010.

Qualitative research (2011)
Book Chapter
Ball, E. (2011). Qualitative research. In The Nursing Companion. Palgrave Macmillan

The relevance of research to nursing (2011)
Book Chapter
Ball, E. (2011). The relevance of research to nursing. In P. Birchenhall, & N. Adams (Eds.), The nursing companion. London: Palgrave Macmillan