Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

‹ Define qualitative research
‹ Describe sampling techniques in
qualitative research
‹ Discuss the three major sources of
qualitative data
‹ Explain analysis and interpretation
methods with qualitative data
‹ Describe techniques used to meet the
four elements of evaluation
‹ Distinguish among the four major
types of qualitative research
‹ Discuss the philosophical
underpinnings of four major types
of qualitative research

‹ Explain the focus of

phenomenological inquiry

‹ Give an example of grounded theory

used in nursing

‹ Name a major nurse contributor to

the advancement of ethnographic

research

‹ List two hypothetical examples of

historical research in nursing

‹ Discuss how qualitative studies can

be used to create evidence-based

practice (EBP)

‹ Discuss ethical considerations that are

unique to qualitative methods

KEY TERMS

audit trail
bracketing
case studies
confirmability
credibility
data reduction
data saturation
dependability
emic
ethnography
ethnonursing

ethnoscience

etic

fieldwork

focus groups

gatekeeper

grounded theory

historical

informants

key informants

lived experience

member checks

memoing

participant observation

participants

peer debriefing

persistent observation

phenomenology

purposive

referential adequacy

snowball sampling

strategic sampling

transferability