Nicola Ring
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Prof Nicola Ring

Professor

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  N.Ring@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Nicola is a qualified nurse (adult and children) and health visitor. After working in all these areas she moved into NHS healthcare management working in various clinical effectiveness/governance posts at local and national level.

Nicola started her academic career in 2002 and has since worked on adult and child nursing pre-registration programmes. She has extensive experience of developing health researchers through post-graduate module and programme leadership as well as supervision of masters and doctoral students. Nicola is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is an experienced researcher and principal investigator. Her key research focus is on the (self-) management of long-term conditions in children and adults. Her PhD (2013) was a critical analysis of evidence based practice 鈥 the case of asthma action plans. Increasingly her research focuses on the mental health and well-being of children and young people.

Her methodological expertise is in qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography. She was a member of the eMERGe team which secured NIHR funding to develop innovative international guidance aimed at improving transparency and quality of meta-ethnography reporting.

Nicola is passionate about the social history of nursing and has expert knowledge of the topic. She strongly believes that understanding the profession's past including issues of gender, power, race and ethnicity helps nurses better understand contemporary issues affecting health care practice and policy.

Nicola welcomes contact from potential collaborators and research students.

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Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A., Jepson, R. G., 鈥oyes, J. (2019)
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(5), 1126-1139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13809
Background Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people鈥檚 experiences and associated social processes. Meta-e...

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A., Jepson, R. G., 鈥oyes, J. (2019)
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Psycho-Oncology, 28(3), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4915
Aims The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta鈥恊thnography reporting. Background Evidence鈥恇ased policy and practice require...

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A. S., Jepson, R. G., 鈥oyes, J. (2019)
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Review of Education, 7(2), 430-451. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3147
The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta鈥恊thnography reporting. Evidence鈥恇ased policy and practice require robust evidence...

Creating certainty in a world of uncertainty: a systematic review and meta-ethnography to understand doctors` views and experiences of antibiotic prescribing in acute hospitals.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojcik, G., Ring, N., McCulloch, C., Willis, D., Kydonaki, K., & Williams, B. (2018, October)
Creating certainty in a world of uncertainty: a systematic review and meta-ethnography to understand doctors` views and experiences of antibiotic prescribing in acute hospitals. Presented at 6th International Conference on Antibiotics, Antimicrobials and Resistance, Edinburgh, UK
Introduction The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to public health and patient safety due to associated morbidity, mortality and healthca...

Developing meta-ethnography reporting guidance for research and practice

Report
Cunningham, M., France, E. F., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A. S., Roberts, R. J., 鈥oyes, J. (in press)
Developing meta-ethnography reporting guidance for research and practice. NIHR
Background: Meta-ethnography is a commonly used methodology for qualitative evidence synthesis. Research has identified that the quality of reporting of published meta-ethnogr...

Perceived barriers and facilitators to appropriate antibiotic prescribing in acute hospitals: a systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol.

Other
Wojcik, G., McCulloch, C., Willis, D., Kydonaki, K., Williams, B., & Ring, N. (2017)
Perceived barriers and facilitators to appropriate antibiotic prescribing in acute hospitals: a systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol

eMERGe Dr Nicola Ring

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Ring, N. (2017)
eMERGe Dr Nicola Ring. [Video]

Protocol-developing meta-ethnography reporting guidelines (eMERGe).

Journal Article
France, E., Ring, N., Noyes, J., Maxwell, M., Jepson, R., Duncan, E., 鈥ny, I. (2015)
Protocol-developing meta-ethnography reporting guidelines (eMERGe). BMC Medical Research Methodology, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0068-0
Background: Designing and implementing high-quality health care services and interventions requires robustly synthesised evidence. Syntheses of qualitative research studies ca...

The 鈥榲icious cycle鈥 of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals鈥 views

Journal Article
Ring, N., Booth, H., Wilson, C., Hoskins, G., Pinnock, H., Sheikh, A., & Jepson, R. (2015)
The 鈥榲icious cycle鈥 of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals鈥 views. BMC family practice, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0352-4
Background: Personal asthma action plans (PAAPs) have been guideline recommended for years, but consistently under-issued by health professionals and under-utilised by patient...

A methodological systematic review of what鈥檚 wrong with meta-ethnography reporting.

Journal Article
France, E. F., Ring, N., Thomas, R., Noyes, J., Maxwell, M., & Jepson, R. (2014)
A methodological systematic review of what鈥檚 wrong with meta-ethnography reporting. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-119
Background: Syntheses of qualitative studies can inform health policy, services and our understanding of patient experience. Meta-ethnography is a systematic seven-phase inter...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • The views and experience of children and young people who have used mental health support services following self-harm or suicidal behaviours
  • Perspectives on the role of hospital nurses in paediatric asthma management in Saudi Arabia: an extended case study method in comparative settings to explore individual, institutional and socio-cultural factors