Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

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

‹ Compare and contrast ways that
qualitative data are analyzed
‹ Discuss the benefits of Computer
Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Software to assist with managing
qualitative data
‹ Describe how researchers draw
conclusions from the data and verify
them
‹ Recognize the common ways data are
presented in reports

‹ State why qualitative research is

evaluated differently from how

quantitative research is evaluated

‹ Define trustworthiness in terms

of credibility, transferability,

dependability, and confirmability

‹ Describe strategies for evaluating

qualitative research

‹ Describe key ethical issues in

qualitative research

KEY TERMS

auditability
axial coding
coding
Computer Assisted
Qualitative Data
Analysis Software
(CAQDAS)
confessionist tales
confirmability

credibility

data reduction

data saturation

dependability

impressionist tales

member checks

negative case analysis

open coding

peer debriefing

personal narrative

qualitative data analysis

realist tales

reflexivity

replicated

representativeness

transferability

triangulation

trustworthiness