Nursing Research : A Qualitative Perspective

by Munhall, Patricia L.

• ISBN13: 9780763711351
• ISBN10: 0763711357
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett

Summary

In its Third Edition, Nursing Research: A Qualitative Perspective continues to define this increasingly important paradigm as it relates to the continuing progress in nursing research today. The text

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue	xix
Acknowledgements	xxv
Contributors	xxvii
Part I: Language, Epistemology, and the Qualitative Paradigm	1	(90)
Language and Nursing Research	3	(34)
Patricia L. Munhall
Epistemology in Nursing	37	(28)
Patricia L. Munhall
Philosophical Foundations of Qualitative Research	65	(26)
Carolyn Oiler Boyd
Part II: Qualitative Methods and Exemplars	91	(444)
Phenomenology: The Method	93	(30)
Carolyn Oiler Boyd
Phenomenology: A Method	123	(62)
Patricia L. Munhall
Longitudinal Phenomenology: An Example of ``Doing'' Phenomenology Over Time; Phenomenology of Maternal Mourning: Being-A-Mother ``In Another World (1992) and Five Years Later (1997)''	185	(24)
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Grounded Theory: The Method	209	(36)
Sally A. Hutchinson
Holly Skodal Wilson
Understanding Clients' Health Care Decisions: A Grounded-Theory Approach	245	(32)
JoAnne Weiss
Sally A. Hutchinson
Ethnography: The Method	277	(30)
Carol P. Germain
Cardiac Patients' Hospitalization for an Acute Episode and Their Symptom Management: An Ethnography	307	(52)
Zane Robinson Wolf
Case Study: The Method	359	(26)
Carla Mariano
Drifting Without Consciousness: A Descriptive Case Study---Nina's Story	385	(18)
Mary Colvin
Historical Research: The Method	403	(14)
M. Louise Fitzpatrick
``Constant and Relentless'': The Nursing Care of Patients in Iron Lungs, 1928-1955	417	(22)
Lynne Dunphy
Interpretive Analysis: The Method	439	(28)
Richard Maclntyre
Religion as Metaphor: Interpretive Analysis	467	(36)
Richard Maclntyre
Action Research: The Method	503	(20)
Carolyn L. Brown
Building a Snowman While You Study Snow in the Middle of an Avalanche	523	(12)
Jody Glittenberg
Part III: Other Considerations in Qualitative Research	535	(112)
Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Research	537	(14)
Patricia L. Munhall
Institutional Review of Qualitative Proposals: A Task of No Small Consequence	551	(14)
Patricia L. Munhall
Types of Talk: Modes of Responses and Data-Led Analytic Strategies	565	(14)
Janice M. Morse
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches	579	(20)
Carolyn Oiler Boyd
Evaluating Qualitative Research	599	(14)
Julie Evertz
Qualitative Research Proposals and Reports	613	(26)
Carolyn Oiler Boyd
Patricia L. Munhall
Getting Qualitative Research Ideas and Help On-Line	639	(8)
Maureen Duffy
Index	647