Application of six-step scoping review framework
| Scoping review step | Application |
| Stage 1: identifying the research question | This review focused on the research question ‘How is the voice of the nurse in PICU portrayed in the literature?’. |
| Stage 2: identifying relevant studies | The initial search strategy involved broad terms focusing on any literature involving the nurse in PICU, using the population ‘nursing’, concept ‘voice of’ and context ‘PICU’. The search was conducted using PubMed, Nursing (OVID), Medline (OVID), CINHAL (EBSCO), SCOPUS and Web of Science online databases. |
| Stage 3: study selection | Studies were included if they were published in English, published since 2010, identified nurses in the population and were set in PICU. Research from a variety of countries was included. Any research that described care of paediatric critical care patients was evaluated, including care in of children in mixed adult and paediatric intensive care units due to the high level of critical care provision in these settings. On review of the findings, a decision was made to include only qualitative literature to allow for unconstricted exploration of the voice of the nurse. Literature that was in a setting other than PICU, published in a language other than English and if the voice of the nurse could not be identified was excluded. Comments, editorials and reviews were also excluded. |
| Stage 4: charting the data | Each included paper was evaluated to identify the context in which the voice of the nurse was depicted, and related themes were extracted by reviewing the paper findings and identifying key insights related to the voice of the nurse. Themes were extracted and imported to NVivo for thematic analysis. |
| Stage 5: collating, summarising and reporting the results. | Key themes are presented in this paper and full summary is in online supplemental table 1. |
| Step 6: consultation (optional) | The key stakeholders in this review are PICU nurses. No additional nurses were consulted in this review as they were part of the review team. |
Adapted from Arksey and O’Malley.9
PICU, paediatric intensive care unit.