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Samuel Porter
Researcher at Bournemouth University
Publications - 153
Citations - 3613
Samuel Porter is an academic researcher from Bournemouth University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Health care. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 150 publications receiving 3255 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel Porter include Queen's University Belfast & National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Validity, trustworthiness and rigour: reasserting realism in qualitative research.
TL;DR: If qualitative research is actually about something, and if it is required to provide beneficial information, then a realist approach to validity holds out greatest promise.
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A participant observation study of power relations between nurses and doctors in a general hospital
TL;DR: While both the unproblematic subordination and the informal covert decision-making types of interaction appeared superficially to be used frequently, closer examination revealed that nurses were less dependent on these subordinate modes of interaction than much of the literature suggested.
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Critical Realist Ethnography: The Case of Racism and Professionalism in a Medical Setting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a philosophy for ethnography which could overcome some of the epistemological criticisms to which it has recently been subjected, notably by Martin Hammersley (1990, 1992).
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Multidimensional rehabilitation programmes for adult cancer survivors
David Scott,Moyra Mills,Amanda Black,Marie M. Cantwell,Anna Campbell,Christopher Cardwell,Samuel Porter,Michael Donnelly +7 more
TL;DR: It was suggested that MDRPs with a single domain or outcome focus appeared to be more successful than programmes with multiple aims and programmes that comprised participants with different types of cancer compared to cancer site-specific programmes were more likely to show positive improvements in physical outcomes.
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Nursing research conventions : objectivity or obfuscation ?
TL;DR: It is argued that the interpretations, values and interests of the researcher are central to the research process, and nursing research may be affected by the interests of managers, educationalists and those who wish to see nursing attain professional status.