title: Invisible nursing research: thoughts about mixed methods research and nursing practice.
abstract: In this this essay, the author addresses the close connection between mixed methods research and nursing practice. If the assertion that research and practice are parallel processes is accepted, then nursing practice may be considered "invisible mixed methods research," in that almost every encounter between a nurse and a patient involves collection and integration of qualitative (word) and quantitative (number) information that actually is single-case mixed methods research.
authors: Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston.
authors: Jacqueline
authors: J
authors: Fawcett
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design
keywords: Nursing practice; conceptual models; mixed methods research; nursing research; theories