Latimer Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4998-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative researchmethodologies creatively developed by and within nursing. The bookis written by authors at the forefront of their fields. It is aimedat enabling people to research critical issues for nursing practiceand health care.
Nurses face the imperative for practice grounded inresearch-based evidence. The book demonstrates how qualitativemethodologies can produce rigorous and valid research. Drawing onempirical data each chapter introduces a particular contemporaryapproach; examines the literature in its field; discusses itsrelevance for nursing and health care; and explains what claims toknowledge can be made.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Latimer, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.
2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being ReflexiveAbout Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.
3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.
4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body toUnderstand Nursing Practice.
5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of InsiderEthnography.
6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: AnObject-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 ofNursing Practice.
10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture ofNursing.
11. A History of Small Things.
12. Studying The Women in White.
Epilogue.
Index