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group of individuals was from the available contact list and the second set was generated by
contacting remaining Radiation Oncology Centres over the phone.
5) Weekly email reminder for three weeks to each group and advising those who have
responded to kindly excuse the prompt.
Sampling and recruitment strategy for environmental scan. The “target population”
was the 42 English Radiation Oncology Centres in Canada with the aim of one nurse respondent
from each centre as the “representative sample” (Polit & Beck, 2012, p. 274). The inclusion and
exclusion criteria are as follows:
Inclusion criteria: To be present in this study, one nurse participant who works in a
Canadian Radiation Oncology Centre and speaks English was invited.
Exclusion criteria: Nurses who are not part of the Radiation Oncology Department as the
focus of the study was in wound care during radiotherapy.
Accordingly, the projected sample size was 42 nurses from across Canada (See Table
3.1). An initial list of “purposive sample” contacts had been developed as they “are judged to be
particularly knowledgeable about the issue under study” (Polit & Beck, 2012, p. 279). As a
radiation oncology nurse, I was privy to a contact list of nurses at these Canadian centres. The
list comprised of Education Resource Nurses or Nurse Leaders at ambulatory Radiation
Oncology Centres. However, on comparing this list with the Radiation Oncology Centres from
the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO) centre contact list, only 31 centres
were represented. The Radiation Oncology Centres that did not have contact names on the
preliminary list were contacted via the phone to obtain contact names. At this point, centres that
sent responses in French were eliminated from the target sample (given English as inclusion
criteria). Three centres (out of the missing 11 centres) provided contact information in English
