Adv Qualitative Research Nursi

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Author: Latimer

ISBN-10: 063205946X

ISBN-13: 9780632059461

Category: Nursing Research & Theory

This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed by and within nursing. The book is written by authors at the forefront of their fields. It is aimed at enabling people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care.\ Nurses face the imperative for practice grounded in research-based evidence. The book demonstrates how qualitative methodologies can produce rigorous and valid research. Drawing on empirical data each chapter...

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This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed by and within nursing. The book is written by authors at the forefront of their fields. It is aimed at enabling people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care. Nurses face the imperative for practice grounded in research-based evidence. The book demonstrates how qualitative methodologies can produce rigorous and valid research. Drawing on empirical data each chapter introduces a particular contemporary approach; examines the literature in its field; discusses its relevance for nursing and health care; and explains what claims to knowledge can be made.

PrefaceList of contributorsIntroduction1Where do we stand in relation to the data? Being reflexive about reflexivity in health care evaluation17Moving nursing practice: integrating theory and method32Participative observation: using the subject body to understand nursing practice53Self and others: the rigour and ethics of insider ethnography77Researching story and narrative in nursing: an object-relations approach97Rational solutions and unreliable narrators: content, structure and voice in narrative research115Discourse analysis, ideology and professional practice137Words are powerful tools: discourse analytic explanations of nursing practice155Taking things seriously: studying the material culture of nursing185A history of small things211Studying the women in white231Epilogue247Index249