Table 2 Themes
Theme | Subthemes | Elements |
|---|---|---|
Coming into learning about research | Early experiences | Feeling lost |
Help with learning | Not knowing how or if to critique | |
Courses, subjects, resources, programs, access to articles, teaching and learning strategies, educators, peers | ||
Fitting research into the reality of nursing life | Organisational issues | Work culture, resources, staffing, roadblocks, disinterest, supportiveness, valuing research |
Interpersonal issues | Hostility, gate-keeping, apathy and reluctance, support, assistance, feeling out of place | |
Confidence | Feeling capable and competent dealing with research, feelings about interacting with research | |
Working towards using research | Approaches to reading and understanding research | Selective reading of research papers, reading strategies |
Using research | Improving practice with research | |
Mathematics difficulties | Numerical results, statistics, symbols, as a focus for problems understanding research | |
Research language | Research-specific terms as a focus for problems understanding research |