Adventures in Research

In this episode Professor Cara Bailey from the University of Birmingham talks to us about her research into end of life care in the Emergency Department.  We learn how being an insider in the department helped her to understand what questions needed to be answered through research to improve the care of the patients, and the well being of the staff.  Cara is talking about the beginning of her research journey, when she was not sure that someone like her was allowed to do research and how she feels just as passionate about her nursing work now as she has always done.  Great episode, thank you Cara! 

Hosu is a mental health nurse whose research explored what it is like to work on an eating disorders unit.  She wanted to understand why this clinical area was not a more popular choice for nurses.  She talks about how she came up with questions to use in her semi-structured interviews to get nurses to talk about their experiences and what she learned.

In this episode Bronwyn interviews Philippa Marriot.  Philippa did a qualitative study to find out what it is like for student nurses on their first placement. 

This is a tiny sample of what is to come.  Your hosts are Amelia Swift from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and Bronwyn Tarrant from the University of Melbourne, Australia.  We tell you a little about the podcast series and you hear some of the voices of the people we have interviewed about their healthcare research.