Fundamentals of Qualitative Phenomenological Nursing Research

Fundamentals of Qualitative Phenomenological Nursing Research is the first book of its kind to specifically link the findings of qualitative research to evidence-based practice, policy, theory, and theory development. Designed for novice researchers, graduate students, and experienced practitioners alike, this comprehensive resource provides up-to-date coverage of research methods and techniques, the use of data analysis software, phenomenological writing and publishing, and more.

The text opens with a general introduction to qualitative research and its components, followed by detailed description of the philosophical, paradigmatic, and conceptual aspects of phenomenological inquiry. Subsequent sections address topics including the practical aspects of phenomenological investigations, the concepts of rigor and validity in qualitative studies, and the methods of phenomenological data, collection, reduction, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Throughout the book, author Brigitte S. Cypress offers expert guidance and real-world tips regarding the challenges researchers encounter when conducting a qualitative study.

• Provides simple, straightforward descriptions of qualitative research methods with actual phenomenological examples
• Features numerous in-depth exemplars of the philosophical and paradigmatic aspects of qualitative research from the author’s own studies
• Includes practical advice on teamwork, mentoring relationships, data organization, and reporting phenomenological studies
• Presents approaches for dealing with ethical issues, methods for collecting, recording, and storing data, and techniques for analyzing and interpreting findings
• Examines the role of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software

Fundamentals of Qualitative Phenomenological Nursing Research is a must-have guide for qualitative researchers from any discipline, academics and faculty members, and undergraduate and graduate nursing students wanting to learn more about phenomenology as a research approach.

Brigitte S. Cypress, EdD, RN, CCRN, Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Nursing, Camden, New Jersey, USA. Her clinical expertise is adult cardiac, medical, surgical, neuro-surgical, and trauma intensive care. Dr Cypress is a phenomenologist with a clinical focus in patient-family-nurse lived experiences. She has taught research many years and has been in dissertation committees at the PhD level as a qualitative research methodologist. She is the author of The Lived ICU Experiences of Nurses, Patients and Family Members and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword

Preface

How to Use This BooART I: FRAMING QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH 1

Chapter 1: The ‘‘What,’’ ‘‘Why,’’ ‘‘Who,’’ and ‘‘How’’ of Qualitative

 Research: A Snapshot 1

Chapter 2: Exploring the Philosophical, Paradigmatic, and Conceptual

 Underpinnings of Qualitative Phenomenological Research 18

PART II: METHODS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION, REDUCTION, ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION 84

Chapter 3: Collecting, Organizing, Analyzing, and Representing Qualitative

 Phenomenological Data 84

Chapter 4: Data Analysis Software in Qualitative Phenomenological Research105

PART III: ENHANCING RIGOR AND VALIDITY OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL

 RESEARCH 124

Chapter 5: Rigor or Reliability, and Validity in Qualitative Phenomenological

 Research: A Re-Conceptualization 124

PART IV: THE ART OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL WRITING, REPORTING,

 AND PUBLISHING 158

Chapter 6. Qualitative Phenomenological Writing 158

Chapter 7. Publishing Qualitative Phenomenological Research Findings 174

PART V: PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH 213

Chapter 8: Challenges and Dilemmas in Phases of Qualitative Phenomenological

 Research 213

Chapter 9. Effective Mentoring Relationships and Teamwork in Qualitative

 Phenomenological Research 230

PART VI: PHENOMENOLOGICAL OUTCOMES, AND APPLICATIONS IN

 EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, POLICY, AND THEORY 249

Chapter 10: Outcomes of Qualitative Phenomenological Research: Linking

 Findings to Evidence-Based Practice, Policy, and Theory 249

• Asking Meaning Question in Evidence-Based Reviews and the Utility of Qualitative Research Findings in Practice 250
• Policy as Outcome of Phenomenological Research 272
• Phenomenological Research, and Knowledge and Theory Development

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Index

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