Description
Book SynopsisNurses are faced with the need for practice grounded in research-based evidence. This book presents qualitative research methodologies creatively developed within nursing. It enables people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care.
Table of ContentsPreface.
List of Contributors.
1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.
2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.
3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.
4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice.
5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography.
6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-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 of Nursing Practice.
10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing.
11. A History of Small Things.
12. Studying The Women in White.
Epilogue.
Index
