Courtney Keeler, lead author of “Secondary Data in Nursing Research”

AJNeditor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Courtney Keeler about her article, which discusses the alignment of research goals with secondary data sources, explores sources of publicly available secondary data that might be of interest to nurse researchers, and outlines the costs and benefits of using secondary data. This article is the ninth in a series on clinical research by nurses, “Nursing Research, Step by Step.”