Qualitative research in nursing and healthcare / Immy Holloway, Stephanie Wheeler.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 351 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781405161220 (pbk.) :
- 610.73072 22
- RT81.5 .H656 2010
- WY 20.5
Previous ed.: published as Qualitative research in nursing. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature and usefulness of qualitative research -- Initial steps in the research process -- Ethical considerations -- The issue of supervision -- Interviewing -- Participant observation and documents as sources of data -- Focus groups as qualitative research -- Sampling -- Ethnography -- Grounded theory -- Narrative inquiry -- Phenomenology -- Action research -- Additional approaches -- Mixed methods : combining qualitative and quantitative research -- Data analysis, procedures, practices, and computers -- Establishing quality : validity or trustworthiness -- Writing up research -- Qualitative research : the paradigm debate.
The third edition of this successful book incorporates recent developments in nursing research, with updates to every chapter. Abstract ideas in qualitative research are clearly explained and more complex theories are included.
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