Advanced qualitative research for nursing

1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials 2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation 3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method 4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice 5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography 6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-Relations Approach 7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content, Structure and Voice in Narrative Research 8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice 9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations of Nursing Practice 10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing 11. A History of Small Things 12. Studying The Women in White.

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Nurses face the imperative for practice grounded in research-based evidence. This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed by and within the nursing profession. 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. The book is written by authors at the forefront of their fields and enables readers to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care.