Nursing Research: A Qualitive Perspective

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Author: Patricia L. Munhall

ISBN-10: 0763738646

ISBN-13: 9780763738648

Category: Nursing Research & Theory

Designed for nursing research students and nurses conducting qualitative studies, this text exemplifies qualitative methods with case studies, ethnography, and phenomenology.\ \ \ Includes ethical concerns, institutional review, formatting proposals & reports, combining research approaches, etc.\

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This long-awaited new edition of the 1986 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner has been completely revised and updates. It preserves the format of the original and adds new material on case study methods, study proposals and formats, ethical considerations, institutional review concerns, and the dialect of qualitative and quantitative methods. This book is essential for courses on nursing research, and indispensable for researchers conducting qualitative studies. Doody Review Services Reviewer:Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN(Slippery Rock University )Description:This book provides a basic understanding of qualitative research. New chapters, authors, and exemplars are included in this updated fourth edition.Purpose:The purpose is to provide a foundation for understanding qualitative research. This is certainly a useful purpose in light of the increasing focus on qualitative research in nursing.Audience:The target audience is nurses and nursing students interested in qualitative research. The author and contributors are qualitative researchers.Features:The first of the book's three sections deals with the fundamentals of qualitative research. Three new chapters cover the landscape of qualitative research, historical and philosophical foundations of qualitative research, and contemporary philosophies as related to qualitative research. Part II deals with the more prevalent qualitative methods and an exemplar for each method. New authors have written these chapters. Part III covers essential issues related to conducting qualitative research. Six new authors have contributed to this section.Assessment:This book should be valuable to the target audience. The author recommends that the older editions of this book should not be discarded. This fourth edition provides a complete foundation for qualitative research.

1The landscape of qualitative research32Language and nursing research373Epistemology in nursing714Historical and philosophical foundations of qualitative research995Reflections on postmodernism, critical social theory, and feminist approaches : the postmodern mind1276A phenomenological method1457Exemplar : meanins in mothers' experience with infant death : three phenomenological inquiries : in another world; five years later; what forever means2118Grounded theory : the method2399Exemplar : teetering on the edge : a continually emerging theory of postpartum depression27310Ethnography : the method29311Exemplar : the milk of human kindness : WIC influence on the infant feeding decisions of black non-hispanic women33112Case study : the method34913A case study exemplar : health outcomes of people with serious mental illnesses35914Historical research : the method37515Exemplar : "called to a mission of charity" : the sisters of St. Joseph in the Civil War38716Narrative inquiry : the method40117Exemplar : four types of stories about family caregiving42318Action research : the methodologies44719Exemplar : practical discourse as action research : inquiry into post-myocardial behavior coaching46320Evidenced-based nursing and qualitative research : a partnership imperative for real-world practice48121Ethical considerations and qualitative research50122Institutional review of qualitative research proposals : a task of no small consequence51523Strategies of intraproject sampling52924Combining qualitative and quantitative method for mixed-method designs54125Evaluation of qualitative research55526Locating qualitative research resources online56927Opening doors to reimagining qualitative research555AppGeneral format for research proposals and research reports

\ From The CriticsReviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN(Slippery Rock University )\ Description: This book provides a basic understanding of qualitative research. New chapters, authors, and exemplars are included in this updated fourth edition.\ Purpose: The purpose is to provide a foundation for understanding qualitative research. This is certainly a useful purpose in light of the increasing focus on qualitative research in nursing.\ Audience: The target audience is nurses and nursing students interested in qualitative research. The author and contributors are qualitative researchers.\ Features: The first of the book's three sections deals with the fundamentals of qualitative research. Three new chapters cover the landscape of qualitative research, historical and philosophical foundations of qualitative research, and contemporary philosophies as related to qualitative research. Part II deals with the more prevalent qualitative methods and an exemplar for each method. New authors have written these chapters. Part III covers essential issues related to conducting qualitative research. Six new authors have contributed to this section.\ Assessment: This book should be valuable to the target audience. The author recommends that the older editions of this book should not be discarded. This fourth edition provides a complete foundation for qualitative research.\ \ \ \ \ From The CriticsReviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN(Slippery Rock University ) \ Description: This book provides a basic understanding of qualitative research. New chapters, authors, and exemplars are included in this updated fourth edition.\ Purpose: The purpose is to provide a foundation for understanding qualitative research. This is certainly a useful purpose in light of the increasing focus on qualitative research in nursing.\ Audience: The target audience is nurses and nursing students interested in qualitative research. The author and contributors are qualitative researchers.\ Features: The first of the book's three sections deals with the fundamentals of qualitative research. Three new chapters cover the landscape of qualitative research, historical and philosophical foundations of qualitative research, and contemporary philosophies as related to qualitative research. Part II deals with the more prevalent qualitative methods and an exemplar for each method. New authors have written these chapters. Part III covers essential issues related to conducting qualitative research. Six new authors have contributed to this section.\ Assessment: This book should be valuable to the target audience. The author recommends that the older editions of this book should not be discarded. This fourth edition provides a complete foundation for qualitative research.\ \ \ BooknewsTwenty-five chapters describe the methods of and principles underlying qualitative research as it is applied to the field of nursing. Examples of various methods are provided, including phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study, historical research, interpretive analysis, and active research. Ethical considerations, matters of institutional review and evaluation, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative research are also discussed. Contributors include researchers and professors of nursing and counseling. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ \ \ 4 Stars! from Doody\ \