This is a concise, step-by-step guide to conducting qualitative nursing research using various forms of data analysis. It is part of a unique series of books devoted to seven different qualitative designs and methods in nursing, written for both novice researchers and specialists seeking to develop or expand their competency. This practical resource encompasses such methodologies as content analysis, a means of organizing and interpreting data to elicit themes and concepts; discourse analysis, used to analyze language to understand social or historical context; narrative analysis, in which the researcher seeks to understand human experience through participant stories; and focus groups and case studies, used to understand the consensus of a group or the experience of an individual and his or her reaction to a difficult situation such as disease or trauma.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Foreword - Linda Roussel, PhD, RN
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Qualitative Data Analysis - Jennifer B. Averill
• 2 Data Security in Qualitative Research - Grady D. Barnhill and Elizabeth A. Barnhill
• 3 Stories of Caring for Others by Nursing Students in Cameroon, Africa - Mary Bi Suh Atanga and Sarah Hall Gueldner
• 4 The Image of Nursing in the Science-Fiction Literature - Linda Wright Thompson
• 5 African Indigenous Methodology in Qualitative Research: The Lekgotla—A Holistic Approach of Data Collection and Analysis Intertwined - Abel Jacobus Pienaar
• 6 Understanding Talk and Texts: Discourse Analysis for Nursing Research - Jennifer Smith-Merry
• 7 Exploring Discourse in Context: Discussion of the Use of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis to Compare Managerial and Organizational Discourses - Susan L. Johnson
• 8 Narrative Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Positive Social Change - Michelle M. McKelvey
• 9 Learning From Others: Writing a Qualitative Dissertation - Judith Hold
• 10 Key Informant Interviews and Focus Groups - Gloria Ann Jones Taylor and Barbara Jean Blake
• 11 Using Focus Group Discussion to Investigate Perceptions of Sexual Risk Compensation Following Posttrial HIV Vaccine Uptake Among Young South Africans - Catherine MacPhail
• 12 Data Analysis: The World Café - Magdalena P. Koen, Emmerentia du Plessis, and Vicki Koen
• 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