Book Details
Orange Code:54782
Paperback:270 pages
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Sections:
1. Where do we stand in relation to the data? Being reflexive about reflexivity in health care evaluation2. Moving nursing practice: integrating theory and method3. Participative observation: using the subject body to understand nursing practice4. Self and others: the rigour and ethics of insider ethnography5. Researching story and narrative in nursing: an object-relations approach6. Rational solutions and unreliable narrators: content, structure and voice in narrative research7. Discourse analysis, ideology and professional practice8. Words are powerful tools: discourse analytic explanations of nursing practice9. Studying the women in white
Description:
Nurses are faced with the need for practice grounded in research-based evidence. Research methodologies must be theoretically sound but must also take into account the unique challenges of the socio-political conditions under which nurses practice. This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed within nursing. Written by authors at the forefront of their fields, the book is intended to enable people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care. Drawing on empirical data, each chapter introduces a particular contemporary approach, examines the literature in it field, discussed its relevance for nursing and health care and explains what claims to knowledge can be made.An advanced-level research book specifically for postgraduate nurses, this book contains contributions from international authors at the forefront of nursing academia which explains the new, more complex research methodologies and offers a bridge between nursing and social science.
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