Qualitative Nursing Research

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

Is qualitative research an end in itself or the beginning of a process?; qualitative nursing research - a free-for-all, Janice M.Morse on bracketing the phenomenological perspective,Joan M.Anderson on developing theory inductively; ethnography and epistemology - generating nursing theory, Agnes M.Aamodt on ethics and validity; being a phenomenologicl researcher, Vangie Bergum on fieldwork in your own setting; the use of self in ethnographic research, Julienne G.Lipson on nursing phenomena; doing fieldwork in your own culture, Peggy Ann Field on the evolving nature of qualitative methods in nursing; qualitative clinical nursing research when a community is the client, Judith A.Strasser on terminology; strategies for sampling, Janice M.Morse on replicability are counting and coding acappella appropriate in qualitative research?, Phylis Noerager Stern on issues about reliability and validity; issues of reliability and validity,Pamela J.Brink on interviewing; interview techniques in qualitative research - concerns and challenges, Katharyn Antle May on the relationship between the researcher and the subject; conducting qualitative studies with children and adolescents, Janet A.Deatrick and Sandra A.Faux on triangulation; triangulation in qualitative research - issues in conceptual clarity and purpose, Kathleen A.Knalf and Bonnie J.Breitmayer,the granting game; funding strategies for qualitative research, Toni Tripp-Reimer and Marlene Zichi Cohen on muddling methods; institutional review of qualitative research proposals - a task of no small consequence, Patricia L.Munhall on the team approach; feild research - a collaborative model for practice and research, Joyceen S.Boyle on teaching qualitative methods; teaching qualitative research - perennial problems and possible solutions, Sally A.Hutchinson and Rodman B.Webb.