This concise, "how to" guide to conducting qualitative ethnography research spearheads a new series, Qualitative Designs and Methods, for novice researchers and specialists alike focusing on state-of-the-art methodologies from a nursing perspective.

Table of Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Foreword - Janice M. Morse, PhD, FAAN
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Overview of Ethnography - Mary de Chesnay
• 2 State of the Art in Nursing Research Using Ethnography - Diane Keen and Mary de Chesnay
• 3 Ethnographic Methods - Mary de Chesnay
• 4 Caminando Mas Cerca Con Dios (A Closer Walk With Thee): An Ethnography of Health and Well-Being of Rural Nicaraguan Men - Carl A. Ross
• 5 How to Do Ethnography - Ditsapelo M. McFarland
• 6 Implementing a Needle Exchange Program: An Ethnographic Analysis - Jeri A. Milstead
• 7 Experiences of a Nurse Ethnographer: From Student to Faculty - Pamela J. Brink
• 8 Using Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Ghana: A Focused Ethnography - Nana Yaa Boadu and Gina Marie Awoko Higginbottom
• 9 Meta-Ethnography - Mikki Meadows-Oliver
• 10 Application of Leininger's Ethnography/Ethnonursing Research Methodology in Studying the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico - Carol Holtz
• 11 Ethnography in a Black Storefront Church: The Women, the Research, and Me - Mary E. Abrums
• 12 Qualitative Inquiry: Once a Doubting Thomas, Now a Prophet - Joanne K. Singleton
• 13 A Focused Ethnographic Study of Women in Recovery From Alcohol Abuse - Leslie K. Robbins
• 14 Personal Privacy and Interactional Patterns in a Nursing Home - Mary Applegate and Janice M. Morse
• 15 Cultural Variation in Behavioral Response to Parturition: Childbirth in Fiji - Janice M. Morse
• Appendix A List of Journals That Publish Qualitative Research - Mary de Chesnay
• Appendix B Essential Elements for a Qualitative Proposal - Tommie Nelms
• Appendix C Writing Qualitative Research Proposals - Joan L. Bottorff
• Appendix D Outline for a Research Proposal - Mary de Chesnay