Nursing research : a qualitative perspective / Patricia L. Munhall

Includes index.

Part 1 : The Qualitative perspective -- 1. The Landscape of qualitative perspective -- 2. Language and nursing research : the evolution -- 3. Epistemology in nursing -- 4. Postmodern philosophy and qualitative research -- Part II : Qualitative methods -- 5. A Phenomenological methods -- 6. Examplar : in the eye of the storm -- 7. Examplar : Grief interrupted -- 8. Grounded theory : the method -- 9. Examplar : Teetering on the edge -- 10. Ethnography : the method -- 11. Examplar : war stories -- 12. Case study : the method -- 13. Examplar : the body grieves -- 14. Historical research -- 15. History examplar : more than good kind angels -- 16. Narrative inquiry : the method -- 17. Exemplar : narrative analysis -- 18. Action research : the methodologies -- 19. Exemplar : "i've waited for something like this all my life" -- Part III : Internal and external consideration in qualitative research -- 20. Ethical considerations in qualitative research -- 21. Institutional review of the qualitative research proposal : a task of no small consequence -- 22. Evaluation of qualitative research -- 23. Evidence-based nursing and qualitative research : a partnership imperative for real-world practice -- 24. Simultaneous and sequential qualitative mixed-method designs -- 25. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods for mixed-methods designs

The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated with 10 brand new chapters. Within the text, new exemplar research chapters include tha various qualitative methods, phenomenology, thnography,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 qi=ualitative researchers in the field to form an inclusive representation of qualitative research, includingphilosophical underpinnings, methods, exemplars, ethics, evaluation and combining mixed methods.