Author: Patricia L Munhall

The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly updated with 10 brand new chapters. Within the text, new exemplar research chapters include the various qualitative methods, phenomenology, ethnography, grounded theory, case study, historical, narrative inquiry, and action research. This text continues to retain the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods in the same study while relying on the best qualitative researchers in the field to form an inclusive representation of qualitative research, including philosophical underpinnings, methods, exemplars, ethics, evaluation, and combining mixed methods.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Landscape of Qualitative Research in Nursing

Chapter 2 Language and Nursing Research: The Evolution

Chapter 3 Epistemology in Nursing

Chapter 4 Post-modern Philosophy and Qualitative Research

Chapter 5 A Phenomenological Method

Chapter 6 In the Eye of the Storm: A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Parallel Experience of Victims of Katrina and Nurses Who Cared for Them

Chapter 7 Grief Interrupted: The Experience of Loss Among Incarcerated Women: Exemplar of Phenomenology without Linguistic Transformation

Chapter 8 Grounded Theory: The Method

Chapter 9 Exemplar: Teetering on the Edge: A Second Grounded Theory Modification

Chapter 10 Ethnography: The Method

Chapter 11 War Stories: Frontline Reports of the Daily Experiences of Low-Income, Urban, Black Mothers

Chapter 12 Case Study: The Method

Chapter 13 The Body Grieves

Chapter 14 Historical Research

Chapter 15 History Exemplar: More Than Good Kind Angels: Exploring the Value of Nursing Service

Chapter 16 Narrative Inquiry: The Method

Chapter 17 Narrative Analysis: The Effects on Student Learning

Chapter 18  Experiencing a Practicum in Marriage and Family Therapy

Chapter 19 Action Research: The Methodologies

Chapter 20 Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Research

Chapter 21 Institutional Review of Qualitative Research Proposals: A Task of No Small Consequence

Chapter 22 Evaluation of Qualitative Research

Chapter 23 Evidence-Based Nursing and Qualitative Research: A Partnership Imperative for Real-World Practice

Chapter 24 Simultaneous and Sequential Qualitative Mixed Method Designs

Chapter 25 Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Mixed-Method Designs

©2012, 606 pages.