Qualitative Nursing Research: A Contemporary Dialogue

Abstract

Is qualitative research an end in itself or the beginning of a process? qualitative nursing research - a free-for-all, Janice M.Morse on bracketing the phenomenological perspective,Joan M.Anderson on developing theory inductively ethnography and epistemology - generating nursing theory, Agnes M.Aamodt on ethics and validity being a phenomenologicl researcher, Vangie Bergum on fieldwork in your own setting the use of self in ethnographic research, Julienne G.Lipson on nursing phenomena doing fieldwork in your own culture, Peggy Ann Field on the evolving nature of qualitative methods in nursing qualitative clinical nursing research when a community is the client, Judith A.Strasser on terminology strategies for sampling, Janice M.Morse on replicability are counting and coding acappella appropriate in qualitative research?, Phylis Noerager Stern on issues about reliability and validity issues of reliability and validity,Pamela J.Brink on interviewing interview techniques in qualitative research - concerns and challenges, Katharyn Antle May on the relationship between the researcher and the subject conducting qualitative studies with children and adolescents, Janet A.Deatrick and Sandra A.Faux on triangulation triangulation in qualitative research - issues in conceptual clarity and purpose, Kathleen A.Knalf and Bonnie J.Breitmayer,the granting game funding strategies for qualitative research, Toni Tripp-Reimer and Marlene Zichi Cohen on muddling methods institutional review of qualitative research proposals - a task of no small consequence, Patricia L.Munhall on the team approach feild research - a collaborative model for practice and research, Joyceen S.Boyle on teaching qualitative methods teaching qualitative research - perennial problems and possible solutions, Sally A.Hutchinson and Rodman B.Webb.