Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing

This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed by and within nursing. The book is written by authors at the forefront of their fields. It is aimed at enabling people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care.Nurses face the imperative for practice grounded in research-based evidence. The book demonstrates how qualitative methodologies can produce rigorous and valid research. Drawing on empirical data each chapter introduces a particular contemporary approach; examines the literature in its field; discusses its relevance for nursing and health care; and explains what claims to knowledge can be made.

Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years.

Preface

vii

List of contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(14)

Joanna Latimer

Part I Fields

15

(36)

Where do we stand in relation to the data? Being reflexive about reflexivity in health care evaluation

17

(15)

Carl May

Moving nursing practice: integrating theory and method

32

(19)

Mary Ellen Purkis

Part II Selves

51

(44)

Participative observation: using the subject body to understand nursing practice

53

(24)

Jan Savage

Self and others: the rigour and ethics of insider ethnography

77

(18)

Kate Gerrish

Part III Stories

95

(40)

Researching story and narrative in nursing: an object-relations approach

97

(18)

Judith M. Parker

John Wiltshire

Rational solutions and unreliable narrators: content, structure and voice in narrative research

115

(20)

Lioness Ayres

Suzanne Poirier

Part IV Texts

135

(48)

Discourse analysis, ideology and professional practice

137

(18)

Michael Traynor

Words are powerful tools: discourse analytic explanations of nursing practice

155

(28)

Trudy Rudge

Part V Materials

183

(64)

Taking things seriously: studying the material culture of nursing

185

(26)

Margarete Sandelowski

A history of small things

211

(20)

Siobhan Nelson

Studying the women in white

231

(16)

Joanna Latimer

Epilogue

247

(2)

Index

249

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