Includes bibliographical references and index.

The landscape of qualitative research in nursing / Patricia L. Munhall -- Language and nursing research : the evolution / Patricia L. Munhall -- Epistemology in nursing / Patricia L. Munhall -- Postmodern philosophy and qualitative research / Joy Longo and Lynne M. Dunphy -- A phenomenological method / Patricia L. Munhall -- Exemplar : in the eye of the storm : a phenomenological inquiry of the parallel experience of victims of Katrina and nurses who cared for them : exemplar of linguistic transformation in phenomenology and exemplar of longitudinal phenomenology / Sarah Steen Lauterbach and Deborah L. Frank -- Exemplar : grief interrupted : the experience of loss among incarcerated women / Holly M. Harner, Patricia Hentz, and Maria Carmela Evangelista -- Grounded theory : the method / Judith Wuest -- Exemplar : teetering on the edge : a second grounded theory modification / Cheryl Tatano Beck -- Ethnography : the method / Zane Robinson Wolf -- Exemplar : war stories : frontline reports of the daily experiences of low-income, urban, black mothers / Roberta Cricco-Lizza -- Case study : the method / Patricia Hentz -- Exemplar : the body grieves / Patricia Hentz -- Historical research / Karen Saucier Lundy -- History exemplar : more than good kind angels : exploring the value of nursing service / Marcella M. Rutherford -- Narrative inquiry : the method / Maureen Duffy -- Exemplar : narrative analysis : the effects on student learning / Paul Gallant -- Action research : the methodologies / Ronald J. Chenail ... [et al.] -- Exemplar : "I've waited for something like this all my life" : PAR and persons with intellectual disabilities / Rita M. Valade -- Ethical considerations in qualitative research / Patricia L. Munhall -- Institutional review of the qualitative research proposals : a task of no small consequence / Patricia L. Munhall -- Evaluation of qualitative research / Marlene C. Mackey -- Evidence-based nursing and qualitative research : a partnership imperative for real-world practice / Patti Rager Zuzelo -- Simultaneous and sequential qualitative mixed-method designs / Janice M. Morse -- Combining qualitative and quantitative methods for mixed-methods designs / Janice M. Morse and Linda Niehaus.