Includes bibliographical references and index.

The landscape of qualitative research -- Language and nursing research -- Epistemology in nursing -- Historical and philosophical foundations of qualitative research -- Reflections on postmodernism, critical social theory, and feminist approaches: the postmodern mind -- A phenomenological method -- Exemplar: meanins in mothers' experience with infant death: three phenomenological inquiries: in another world; five years later; what forever means -- Grounded theory: the method -- Exemplar: teetering on the edge: a continually emerging theory of postpartum depression -- Ethnography: the method -- Exemplar: the mik of human kindness: WIC influence of the infant feeding decisions of black non-hispanic women -- Case study: the method -- A case study exemplar: health outcomes of people with serious mental illnesses -- Historical research: the method -- Exemplar: "called to a mission of charity": the sisters of St. Joseph in the civil war -- Narrative inquiry: the method -- Exemplar: four types of stories about family caregiving -- Action research: the methodologies -- Exemplar: practical discourse as action research: inquiry into post-myocardial behavior coaching -- Evidenced-based nursing and qualitative research: a partnership imperative for real-world practice -- Ethical considerations and qualitative research -- Institutional review of qualitative research proposals: a task of no small consequence -- Strategies of intraproject sampling -- Combining qualitative and quantitative method for mixed-method designs -- Evaluation of qualitative research -- Locating qualitative research resources online -- Opening doors to reimagining qualitative research.