The aim was to discuss staff safety in effectively speaking out, while acknowledging that patients are receiving poor care.

The research objective of the review was to identify how power and hierarchy affect staff safety in maternity services through the methodology of a narrative synthesis of staff voices from relevant literature. This software was used in a review conducted by the author ( Elliot-Mainwaring, 2021). This article explores the use of NVivo software for inductive coding in thematic narrative synthesis. A discussion of the review findings were explored in a previous article. NVivo was a user-friendly tool for a novice user, facilitating coding for thematic narrative synthesis. Users could create relationships between files and there were opportunities to display the findings in word clouds, hierarchies and clusters. NVivo software provided numerous options to explore data within different tabs. NVivo proved to be a versatile tool the imported files could be word or pdf, the import tab made it possible to upload images and audio files and information could be transferred from OneNote, Outlook and bibliographic software such as Endnote and RefWorks. Selected papers were coded inductively using NVivo software, a subjective idealist approach to knowledge where iteration is achieved at the coding and synthesis stages of the process. This article aims to evaluate NVivo as a tool for thematic narrative synthesis. The review was coded using NVivo software. The author conducted a review on how power and hierarchy affect staff safety in maternity services, using a narrative synthesis of staff voices from relevant literature.

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