The nature and usefulness of qualitative research -- Initial steps in the research process -- Ethical considerations -- The issue of supervision -- Interviewing -- Participant observation and documents as sources of data -- Focus groups as qualitative research -- Sampling -- Ethnography -- Grounded theory -- Narrative inquiry -- Phenomenology -- Action research -- Additional approaches -- Mixed methods : combining qualitative and quantitative research -- Data analysis, procedures, practices, and computers -- Establishing quality : validity or trustworthiness -- Writing up research -- Qualitative research : the paradigm debate

1. Nursing Research -- methods
2. Health Services Research -- methods