Qualitative Research in Nursing: Dona Rinaldi Carpenter
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Introduction to qualitative nursing research
Takeaways: Qualitative research is valuable because it approaches a phenomenon, such as a clinical problem, about which little is known by trying to understand its many facets. Most qualitative research is emergent, holistic, detailed, and uses many strategies to collect data. Qualitative research generates evidence and helps nurses determine ...
Qualitative Methods in Health Care Research
Significance of Qualitative Research. The qualitative method of inquiry examines the 'how' and 'why' of decision making, rather than the 'when,' 'what,' and 'where.'[] Unlike quantitative methods, the objective of qualitative inquiry is to explore, narrate, and explain the phenomena and make sense of the complex reality.Health interventions, explanatory health models, and medical-social ...
An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research
Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, the application of descriptive research is sometimes critiqued in terms of scientific rigor. Inconsistency in decision making within the research process coupled with a ...
Qualitative Research Findings as Evidence: Utility in Nursing Practice
As the use of qualitative research methods proliferates throughout health care, and specifically nursing research studies, there is a need for Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) to become informed regarding the potential utility of qualitative research findings in practice. In this column, the questions of what qualitative findings mean, how the ...
How to appraise qualitative research
Useful terms. Some of the qualitative approaches used in nursing research include grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, case study (can lend itself to mixed methods) and narrative analysis. The data collection methods used in qualitative research include in depth interviews, focus groups, observations and stories in the form of diaries ...
Qualitative data analysis
Qualitative data, such as transcripts from an interview, are often routed in the interaction between the participant and the researcher. Reflecting on how you, as a researcher, may have influenced both the data collected and the analysis is an important part of the analysis. As well as keeping your brain very much in gear, you need to be really ...
Qualitative Research: The "What," "Why," "Who," and ...
Qualitative research methods began to appear in nursing in 1960s and 1970s amid cautious and reluctant acceptance. In the 1980s, qualitative health research emerged as a distinctive domain and mode of inquiry. 1 Qualitative research refers to any kind of research that produces findings not arrived at by means of statistical analysis or other means of quantification. 2,3 It uses a naturalistic ...
PDF qualitative nursing research
method's philosophy. Qualitative research ap-proaches a phenomenon, such as a clinical problem, from a place of unknowing and at-tempts to understand its many facets. This makes qualitative research particularly useful when little is known about a phenomenon because the research helps identify key con-Introduction to qualitative nursing research
Understand What Qualitative Research Is
Rather than by logical and statistical procedures, qualitative researchers use multiple systems of inquiry for the study of human phenomena including biography, case study, historical analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. University of Utah College of Nursing, (n.d.). What is qualitative research?
Searching for Qualitative Studies
Qualitative research in Nursing approaches a clinical question from a place of unknowing in an attempt to understand the complexity, depth, and richness of a particular situation from the perspective of the person or persons impacted by the situation (i.e., the subjects of the study).. Study subjects may include the patient(s), the patient's caregivers, the patient's family members, etc ...
Identifying the best research design to fit the question. Part 2
Qualitative research methods have become increasingly important as ways of developing nursing knowledge for evidence-based nursing practice. Qualitative research answers a wide variety of questions related to nursing's concern with human responses to actual or potential health problems. The purpose of qualitative research is to describe, explore, and explain phenomena being studied.1 ...
Global Qualitative Nursing Research: Sage Journals
Global Qualitative Nursing Research. Global Qualitative Nursing Research (GQNR) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on qualitative research in fields relevant to nursing and other health professionals world-wide. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for … | View full journal description. This journal is a member of the Committee on ...
Qualitative Research in Nursing and Health Professions Regulation
Qualitative research is critical for studies about regulatory issues in nursing and across all health professions. When in-depth stakeholder perspectives are needed, qualitative approaches are often the best methodological choice to ensure their viewpoints and experiences are captured when evaluating the consequences of policy implementation or when informing regulation design.
An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research
Her research interests are in the area of self-harm and suicide and she has a particular interest and expertise in mixed-methods and qualitative research designs. Catherine McCabe (PhD, MSc, BNS, RNT, RGN) is an Associate Professor in General Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.
Types of Research within Qualitative and Quantitative
♦ Statement of purpose—what was studied and why.. ♦ Description of the methodology (experimental group, control group, variables, test conditions, test subjects, etc.).. ♦ Results (usually numeric in form presented in tables or graphs, often with statistical analysis).. ♦ Conclusions drawn from the results.. ♦ Footnotes, a bibliography, author credentials.
Qualitative research
Qualitative research has an important role in helping nurses and other healthcare professionals understand patient experiences of health and illness. Qualitative researchers have a large number of methodological options and therefore should take care in planning and conducting their research. ... Nursing Standard. 29, 30, 43-47. doi: 10.7748/ns ...
Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research
Qualitative description research designs have been predominately used in nursing and midwifery research to provide direct descriptions of phenomena (Sandelowski, 2000). There is a clear alignment of qualitative description research with the philosophies and principles, which underpin both nursing and midwifery, including understanding and ...
Research Guides: Nursing Resources: Qualitative vs Quantitative
It is so easy to confuse the words "quantitative" and "qualitative," it's best to use "empirical" and "qualitative" instead. Hint: An excellent clue that a scholarly journal article contains empirical research is the presence of some sort of statistical analysis. See "Examples of Qualitative and Quantitative" page under "Nursing Research" for ...
Qualitative research and its role in nursing knowledge
The development of qualitative research in nursing is a result of the influence of various traditions. Compared with quantitative, the qualitative approach is relatively new and various techniques and strategies are therefore emerging. Eraut (1994) identified that research of all types should aim to systematically investigate and contribute to ...
[Importance of qualitative research for nursing and nursing science
Qualitative research has an important place in nursing science and is becoming increasingly recognized. Qualitative research in nursing mainly deals with the lived experiences of patients and nurses. In the field of chronic illness, qualitative research has brought to the open some of the processes chronically ill patients undergo and what it ...
Qualitative Research in Healthcare: Necessity and Characteristics
Qualitative research is conducted in the following order: (1) selection of a research topic and question, (2) selection of a theoretical framework and methods, (3) literature analysis, (4) selection of the research participants and data collection methods, (5) data analysis and description of findings, and (6) research validation.
Data collection in qualitative research
The three core approaches to data collection in qualitative research—interviews, focus groups and observation—provide researchers with rich and deep insights. All methods require skill on the part of the researcher, and all produce a large amount of raw data. However, with careful and systematic analysis 12 the data yielded with these ...
JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to offer a variety of benefits to nurses. This article summarizes the qualitative research on the experience of mindfulness training and practice with the goal of providing evidence-based recommendations for nurse leaders on how to design and implement effective and well-adopted mindfulness programs.
"Because people don't know what it is, they don't really know it exists
Dyscalculia is defined as a specific learning difference or neurodiversity. Despite a move within postgraduate medical education (PGME) towards promoting inclusivity and addressing differential attainment, dyscalculia remains an unexplored area. Using an interpretivist, constructivist, qualitative methodology, this scoping study explores PGME educators' attitudes, understanding and perceived ...
The Perceptions and Experiences of Older People Living in the Aftermath
The International Journal of Older People Nursing is a gerontology journal focused on all aspects of geriatric and gerontological nursing. ... G.E.A., F.E., R.I. and F.A., who all had prior training in qualitative research, conducted the interviews. G.E.A. and F.E. developed semi-structured questions that guided the interviews (Table 1). The ...
Experiences of Nurses and Midwives With Indecorously Structured Duty
A qualitative research method with a phenomenological approach was employed to capture the nuanced experiences of nurses and midwives regarding the hospital duty roster. A semistructured interview guide facilitated data collection, ensuring a comprehensive exploration of participants' experiences. ... Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 9 ...
Nursing students' perceptions of the flipped classroom ...
The book is an essential tool for nursing science, providing instruction on key methodological elements in order to provide rigorously conducted empirical research for clinical practice and ...
Qualitative Research and its Uses in Health Care
Quantitative research is based on structure and uses experiments and surveys as methods. In addition, it is deductive in nature and uses statistical sampling methods. In contrast, qualitative research is described as an action research using observation and interview methods. It is inductive in nature and depends on the purposeful selection of ...
Nursing Education Perspectives Spotlights Nation's Mental Health Crisis
The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,000 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.
Sustainability
Due to the exploratory nature of our research, we applied a qualitative case study research method where the qualitative content analysis was used in the process of analysing data. Content analysis is often applied in the research on environmental and sustainability reporting [ 10 , 29 ] and we find it as an adequate approach for addressing the ...
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Takeaways: Qualitative research is valuable because it approaches a phenomenon, such as a clinical problem, about which little is known by trying to understand its many facets. Most qualitative research is emergent, holistic, detailed, and uses many strategies to collect data. Qualitative research generates evidence and helps nurses determine ...
Significance of Qualitative Research. The qualitative method of inquiry examines the 'how' and 'why' of decision making, rather than the 'when,' 'what,' and 'where.'[] Unlike quantitative methods, the objective of qualitative inquiry is to explore, narrate, and explain the phenomena and make sense of the complex reality.Health interventions, explanatory health models, and medical-social ...
Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, the application of descriptive research is sometimes critiqued in terms of scientific rigor. Inconsistency in decision making within the research process coupled with a ...
As the use of qualitative research methods proliferates throughout health care, and specifically nursing research studies, there is a need for Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) to become informed regarding the potential utility of qualitative research findings in practice. In this column, the questions of what qualitative findings mean, how the ...
Useful terms. Some of the qualitative approaches used in nursing research include grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, case study (can lend itself to mixed methods) and narrative analysis. The data collection methods used in qualitative research include in depth interviews, focus groups, observations and stories in the form of diaries ...
Qualitative data, such as transcripts from an interview, are often routed in the interaction between the participant and the researcher. Reflecting on how you, as a researcher, may have influenced both the data collected and the analysis is an important part of the analysis. As well as keeping your brain very much in gear, you need to be really ...
Qualitative research methods began to appear in nursing in 1960s and 1970s amid cautious and reluctant acceptance. In the 1980s, qualitative health research emerged as a distinctive domain and mode of inquiry. 1 Qualitative research refers to any kind of research that produces findings not arrived at by means of statistical analysis or other means of quantification. 2,3 It uses a naturalistic ...
method's philosophy. Qualitative research ap-proaches a phenomenon, such as a clinical problem, from a place of unknowing and at-tempts to understand its many facets. This makes qualitative research particularly useful when little is known about a phenomenon because the research helps identify key con-Introduction to qualitative nursing research
Rather than by logical and statistical procedures, qualitative researchers use multiple systems of inquiry for the study of human phenomena including biography, case study, historical analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. University of Utah College of Nursing, (n.d.). What is qualitative research?
Qualitative research in Nursing approaches a clinical question from a place of unknowing in an attempt to understand the complexity, depth, and richness of a particular situation from the perspective of the person or persons impacted by the situation (i.e., the subjects of the study).. Study subjects may include the patient(s), the patient's caregivers, the patient's family members, etc ...
Qualitative research methods have become increasingly important as ways of developing nursing knowledge for evidence-based nursing practice. Qualitative research answers a wide variety of questions related to nursing's concern with human responses to actual or potential health problems. The purpose of qualitative research is to describe, explore, and explain phenomena being studied.1 ...
Global Qualitative Nursing Research. Global Qualitative Nursing Research (GQNR) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on qualitative research in fields relevant to nursing and other health professionals world-wide. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for … | View full journal description. This journal is a member of the Committee on ...
Qualitative research is critical for studies about regulatory issues in nursing and across all health professions. When in-depth stakeholder perspectives are needed, qualitative approaches are often the best methodological choice to ensure their viewpoints and experiences are captured when evaluating the consequences of policy implementation or when informing regulation design.
Her research interests are in the area of self-harm and suicide and she has a particular interest and expertise in mixed-methods and qualitative research designs. Catherine McCabe (PhD, MSc, BNS, RNT, RGN) is an Associate Professor in General Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.
♦ Statement of purpose—what was studied and why.. ♦ Description of the methodology (experimental group, control group, variables, test conditions, test subjects, etc.).. ♦ Results (usually numeric in form presented in tables or graphs, often with statistical analysis).. ♦ Conclusions drawn from the results.. ♦ Footnotes, a bibliography, author credentials.
Qualitative research has an important role in helping nurses and other healthcare professionals understand patient experiences of health and illness. Qualitative researchers have a large number of methodological options and therefore should take care in planning and conducting their research. ... Nursing Standard. 29, 30, 43-47. doi: 10.7748/ns ...
Qualitative description research designs have been predominately used in nursing and midwifery research to provide direct descriptions of phenomena (Sandelowski, 2000). There is a clear alignment of qualitative description research with the philosophies and principles, which underpin both nursing and midwifery, including understanding and ...
It is so easy to confuse the words "quantitative" and "qualitative," it's best to use "empirical" and "qualitative" instead. Hint: An excellent clue that a scholarly journal article contains empirical research is the presence of some sort of statistical analysis. See "Examples of Qualitative and Quantitative" page under "Nursing Research" for ...
The development of qualitative research in nursing is a result of the influence of various traditions. Compared with quantitative, the qualitative approach is relatively new and various techniques and strategies are therefore emerging. Eraut (1994) identified that research of all types should aim to systematically investigate and contribute to ...
Qualitative research has an important place in nursing science and is becoming increasingly recognized. Qualitative research in nursing mainly deals with the lived experiences of patients and nurses. In the field of chronic illness, qualitative research has brought to the open some of the processes chronically ill patients undergo and what it ...
Qualitative research is conducted in the following order: (1) selection of a research topic and question, (2) selection of a theoretical framework and methods, (3) literature analysis, (4) selection of the research participants and data collection methods, (5) data analysis and description of findings, and (6) research validation.
The three core approaches to data collection in qualitative research—interviews, focus groups and observation—provide researchers with rich and deep insights. All methods require skill on the part of the researcher, and all produce a large amount of raw data. However, with careful and systematic analysis 12 the data yielded with these ...
Mindfulness has been demonstrated to offer a variety of benefits to nurses. This article summarizes the qualitative research on the experience of mindfulness training and practice with the goal of providing evidence-based recommendations for nurse leaders on how to design and implement effective and well-adopted mindfulness programs.
Dyscalculia is defined as a specific learning difference or neurodiversity. Despite a move within postgraduate medical education (PGME) towards promoting inclusivity and addressing differential attainment, dyscalculia remains an unexplored area. Using an interpretivist, constructivist, qualitative methodology, this scoping study explores PGME educators' attitudes, understanding and perceived ...
The International Journal of Older People Nursing is a gerontology journal focused on all aspects of geriatric and gerontological nursing. ... G.E.A., F.E., R.I. and F.A., who all had prior training in qualitative research, conducted the interviews. G.E.A. and F.E. developed semi-structured questions that guided the interviews (Table 1). The ...
A qualitative research method with a phenomenological approach was employed to capture the nuanced experiences of nurses and midwives regarding the hospital duty roster. A semistructured interview guide facilitated data collection, ensuring a comprehensive exploration of participants' experiences. ... Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 9 ...
The book is an essential tool for nursing science, providing instruction on key methodological elements in order to provide rigorously conducted empirical research for clinical practice and ...
Quantitative research is based on structure and uses experiments and surveys as methods. In addition, it is deductive in nature and uses statistical sampling methods. In contrast, qualitative research is described as an action research using observation and interview methods. It is inductive in nature and depends on the purposeful selection of ...
The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,000 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.
Due to the exploratory nature of our research, we applied a qualitative case study research method where the qualitative content analysis was used in the process of analysing data. Content analysis is often applied in the research on environmental and sustainability reporting [ 10 , 29 ] and we find it as an adequate approach for addressing the ...