Use this curated collection of nursing dissertation video guides and podcast-style discussions when you need a focused explanation of a research decision. The selected resources cover statistical-test selection, evidence appraisal, review methods, methodology, proposals, supervisor feedback and discussion writing.
Complete video guidance for stronger nursing dissertations
Watch or listen when you need a focused explanation rather than another long checklist. This curated collection covers research questions, literature reviews, methodology, SPSS results and evidence-based discussion writing.
Nursing dissertation video guides and podcasts
Explore complete tutorials, webinars and podcast-style discussions selected for their relevance to nursing dissertations. These are curated resources from external educators rather than original Nursing Dissertation Service recordings. Each resource plays on this page and can also be opened directly on YouTube.
How to Choose an Appropriate Statistical Test
This tutorial explains how the research question, number and type of variables, distribution and study design guide statistical-test selection before analysis in SPSS.
Nursing application: use the framework to match your research question and variable types before selecting an SPSS procedure.
Key takeaways
- Identify the outcome and predictor variables.
- Check measurement level and study design.
- Review assumptions before running the test.
Literature Reviews for Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Dr Kimberly Souffront of the Mount Sinai Center for Nursing Research and Innovation explains how nursing students can approach literature searching, appraisal and evidence synthesis.
Nursing application: use the process to move from database searching to a defensible synthesis of evidence for practice.
Key takeaways
- Plan a focused and reproducible search.
- Appraise evidence rather than merely summarising it.
- Organise studies around themes and research questions.
How to Handle Feedback From Your Dissertation Supervisor
This video shows how to interpret difficult feedback, separate emotional reactions from revision decisions and use supervisor comments constructively.
Nursing application: convert feedback about methods, evidence or structure into a prioritised revision log.
Key takeaways
- Separate major methodological issues from minor edits.
- Clarify comments that could be interpreted in different ways.
- Record each comment, response and completed change.
Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Research
Understand how the three main methodological approaches differ and how a nursing research question can guide the choice of design.
Nursing application: select a design that fits the question instead of choosing a method because it seems easier to complete.
Key takeaways
- Distinguish numerical measurement from qualitative meaning.
- Understand when integration justifies mixed methods.
- Align the design, data and intended conclusions.
Thematic Analysis Using Braun and Clarke’s Six Stages
Follow a practical explanation of coding, developing themes, reviewing patterns and producing a defensible qualitative interpretation.
Nursing application: document how codes were developed into themes so the analysis remains transparent and defensible.
Key takeaways
- Become familiar with the complete dataset.
- Develop and review meaningful candidate themes.
- Explain researcher interpretation and reflexivity.
Critical Appraisal of Nursing Research Literature
Dr Kimberly Souffront explains how to judge research quality, relevance and limitations when reviewing evidence for nursing practice.
Nursing application: use appraisal findings to judge how confidently a study can support a clinical or academic claim.
Key takeaways
- Assess validity, relevance and methodological limitations.
- Distinguish study quality from relevance to your question.
- Use appraisal findings within the synthesis.
How to Conduct and Write a Systematic Review
Work through the review question, protocol, searching, screening, appraisal, synthesis and structured write-up in seven stages.
Nursing application: report every stage clearly enough for another researcher to understand how evidence was identified and selected.
Key takeaways
- Define eligibility criteria before screening.
- Document database searches and selection decisions.
- Link appraisal and synthesis to the review question.
Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Dissertation Guide
Learn how research philosophy, approach, design, sampling, data collection and analysis fit together within a methodology chapter.
Nursing application: show how philosophy, design, sampling, data collection and analysis form one coherent methodological argument.
Key takeaways
- Justify choices instead of listing definitions.
- Explain sampling and data-collection procedures precisely.
- Address ethics, quality and analytical limitations.
How to Write a Complete Research Proposal
See how the problem, aims, literature, methodology, ethics and proposed analysis should connect within a coherent dissertation proposal.
Nursing application: connect the proposed nursing problem, aim, evidence gap and feasible method before seeking approval.
Key takeaways
- Define a focused and researchable problem.
- Demonstrate the evidence gap and study rationale.
- Plan feasible methods, ethics and analysis.
How to Write a Dissertation Discussion Chapter
Structure the discussion around interpretation, links to previous research, implications, limitations and recommendations rather than repeating results.
Nursing application: interpret findings in relation to nursing evidence and practice without repeating the results section.
Key takeaways
- Explain what the findings mean.
- Compare findings critically with existing research.
- Discuss implications, limitations and recommendations.
Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare Research
This nursing-focused guide introduces ethical concepts including autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice within healthcare research.
Nursing application: use these principles when explaining consent, participant protection, confidentiality and proportional research procedures.
Key takeaways
- Distinguish the main principles of research ethics.
- Connect ethical duties to participant protection.
- Apply ethical reasoning to nursing-research decisions.
How to Write a PICOT Question
This tutorial explains how population, intervention, comparison, outcome and time can be organised into a focused evidence-based-practice question.
Nursing application: use PICOT to turn a broad clinical concern into a searchable and answerable nursing question.
Key takeaways
- Identify each relevant PICOT component.
- Avoid questions that are too broad or unfocused.
- Use the completed question to guide database searching.
PRISMA Flow Diagram: Process and Example
This guide explains how a PRISMA flow diagram records identification, screening, eligibility decisions and the final inclusion of studies.
Nursing application: use the diagram to report study selection transparently when your approved review method requires PRISMA reporting.
Key takeaways
- Record sources and retrieved results accurately.
- Report duplicate removal and screening exclusions.
- Ensure every figure agrees with the written methods.
Managing Missing Values in SPSS
This beginner-friendly SPSS tutorial demonstrates how missing data are identified, defined and examined before statistical analysis.
Nursing application: inspect missingness before running tests and document any defensible handling decision in the methodology and results.
Key takeaways
- Differentiate system-missing and user-defined values.
- Inspect the extent and pattern of missing data.
- Avoid silently deleting observations without justification.
Descriptive Statistics Using SPSS
This practical guide demonstrates how to run and interpret common descriptive statistics for research data in SPSS.
Nursing application: summarise participant characteristics and key variables using statistics suited to their measurement level and distribution.
Key takeaways
- Select appropriate measures of centre and spread.
- Match summaries to categorical and continuous variables.
- Report descriptive findings clearly before inferential tests.
How to Test Questionnaire Reliability with Cronbach’s Alpha in SPSS
Follow the SPSS steps for calculating Cronbach’s alpha, examining item-total statistics and interpreting the internal consistency of a multi-item questionnaire or scale.
Nursing application: evaluate whether items intended to measure a construct—such as patient satisfaction, clinical confidence or care quality—operate consistently before calculating a composite score.
Key takeaways
- Reverse-code negatively worded items before testing reliability.
- Interpret alpha in relation to the construct, number of items and prior validation evidence; it is not proof of validity or unidimensionality.
- Review corrected item-total correlations carefully rather than deleting items merely to increase alpha.
- Report Cronbach’s alpha, the number of items, sample and any justified scoring decisions.
How to Run and Report a Chi-Square Test in SPSS
Learn how to create a crosstab, run Pearson’s chi-square test of independence and interpret the output using a practical medical-research example.
Nursing application: test whether two categorical variables—such as ward type and incident category, or intervention group and outcome status—are associated in a nursing dataset.
Key takeaways
- Inspect frequencies, crosstab percentages and missing categories before interpreting the test.
- Check independence of observations and the expected-frequency information shown in the SPSS footnote.
- If assumptions are not met, consider an appropriate exact test or justified category revision rather than ignoring the warning.
- Report χ², degrees of freedom, sample size, p-value and Phi or Cramér’s V; describe association, not causation.
How to Run Multiple Linear Regression in SPSS
This complete tutorial demonstrates how to fit a multiple linear regression model in SPSS and work through the principal output needed for interpretation.
Nursing application: examine how several predictors—such as age, symptom severity and treatment adherence—relate to a continuous nursing outcome while considering their adjusted contributions.
Key takeaways
- Confirm that the dependent variable is continuous and that the selected predictors answer the research question.
- Check linearity, independence, residual behaviour, influential cases and multicollinearity before interpreting coefficients.
- Interpret R² and adjusted R² alongside the overall model test and individual regression coefficients.
- Report estimates, confidence intervals and limitations without presenting an observational association as proof of causation.
How to Compute and Interpret an Odds Ratio in SPSS
This nursing-research tutorial explains how to calculate an odds ratio in SPSS and interpret the direction and magnitude of association between a binary exposure and outcome.
Nursing application: quantify an association such as whether exposure to a care intervention is related to improvement, readmission or another binary patient outcome.
Key takeaways
- Code exposure and outcome categories consistently and state the reference groups clearly.
- Interpret an odds ratio above, below or equal to 1 in relation to the precise coding used.
- Use the confidence interval to evaluate precision and whether the null value of 1 is included.
- Distinguish odds from probability and avoid describing an odds ratio as a risk ratio unless the design and calculation justify it.
Literature Review Dissertation: Practical Guidance for Healthcare Students
This healthcare-focused tutorial explains how to plan a literature-review dissertation, organise evidence and use practical review tables to maintain a transparent line from searching to synthesis.
Nursing application: use the workflow to define a focused nursing question, record study decisions and build a review that compares evidence instead of describing one paper at a time.
Key takeaways
- Translate the dissertation question into clear concepts and defensible inclusion criteria.
- Record search terms, databases, dates and screening decisions so the process can be explained.
- Use an evidence table to compare study design, sample, findings, quality and relevance.
- Let patterns, disagreements and evidence gaps shape the review rather than arranging paragraphs by author.
How to Synthesise Evidence in a Nursing Literature Review
This tutorial presents five questions that help writers move beyond source-by-source summaries and develop a comparative, analytical literature review.
Nursing application: compare what nursing studies agree on, where their methods or findings differ, why those differences matter and what uncertainty remains for practice or research.
Key takeaways
- Group studies around themes, relationships or debates rather than listing them chronologically.
- Compare findings alongside design, context, sample and measurement choices.
- Explain plausible reasons for agreement or contradiction without overstating what the evidence proves.
- Finish each theme with a reasoned synthesis that answers the review question and identifies remaining uncertainty.
Reflexivity in Qualitative Nursing Research
This guide explains how researchers examine the influence of their assumptions, experiences and position throughout qualitative research.
Nursing application: use a reflexive account to show how your clinical background, relationship with participants and analytical choices may have shaped the study.
Key takeaways
- Distinguish reflexivity from a brief statement of personal bias.
- Record how researcher positioning may influence data collection and interpretation.
- Explain the practical steps used to strengthen transparency.
How to Appraise a Qualitative Study Using CASP
This worked example demonstrates how to examine aims, design, recruitment, data collection, reflexivity, ethics, analysis and the value of qualitative findings.
Nursing application: support every appraisal judgement with evidence from the paper instead of answering checklist questions with unexplained yes-or-no responses.
Key takeaways
- Assess whether the design fits the research aim.
- Evaluate recruitment, data collection and analytical rigour.
- Use appraisal findings to determine the weight given to the study.
A Worked Example of Thematic Synthesis
This webinar walks through how findings from qualitative studies can be coded, grouped into descriptive themes and developed into analytical themes.
Nursing application: use thematic synthesis when an approved qualitative evidence-review method requires interpretation across multiple studies rather than a study-by-study summary.
Key takeaways
- Extract findings consistently from included studies.
- Develop descriptive themes from related codes.
- Build analytical themes that answer the review question.
Understanding the GRADE Approach
This introduction explains how the certainty of a body of evidence can be assessed rather than treating all study findings as equally dependable.
Nursing application: when GRADE is required by your review protocol, consider risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision and publication bias before drawing practice conclusions.
Key takeaways
- Separate certainty of evidence from effect size.
- Understand the main reasons for rating certainty down.
- Match the strength of conclusions to the evidence available.
Testing a Nursing Research Question with FINER Criteria
This tutorial introduces FINER criteria—feasible, interesting, novel, ethical and relevant—as a practical test of whether a proposed research question is defensible.
Nursing application: use FINER after drafting the question to identify problems with access, scope, novelty, ethics or clinical relevance before finalising a proposal.
Key takeaways
- Check whether the project is achievable with available time and resources.
- Explain the question’s contribution and relevance.
- Resolve ethical or feasibility problems before data collection.
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Nursing dissertation podcast FAQs
Who are these nursing dissertation video guides for?
They are designed for nursing students completing undergraduate dissertations, Master’s research, DNP projects, PhD studies, evidence reviews and quality-improvement projects.
Are these original Nursing Dissertation Service podcasts?
No. This page curates external tutorials, webinars and podcast-style discussions from educators whose videos remain available through YouTube. Nursing Dissertation Service adds nursing-focused context and does not claim authorship.
Will these video guides replace academic sources?
No. The selected resources explain research processes and common decisions, but your dissertation should still use appropriate peer-reviewed research, professional standards, clinical guidance and your university’s current requirements.
Do the SPSS video guides include practical examples?
Yes. The selected statistics videos explain test selection and interpretation. Project-specific SPSS guidance should still be checked against your research design and dataset.