Strengths And Weaknesses Of Qualitative Research

Narrative – Review research questions; Write some history; Describe a social process; Create summaries of interviews; Describe functions/structures of the group; Write up critical events chronologically; Make a list of important facts. Connect to your own experience. Read written descriptions. Relate participant's story to your own experience; locate self in the story as related to the participant(s); Look at how participants speak about self and their world. Making metaphors; Note reflections on collected data. (Bihani, Patil, 2014)

Nurses are responsible in providing holistic, quality care to their clients. In order to effectively provide such care Boswell and Cannon (2009, p. 2 & 7) states that nurses must base their provision of care on the most current, up-to-date health information available and sound nursing knowledge. This is where evidence-based practice (EBP) comes in. Polit and Beck (2010, p. 4) defined EBP as "the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care desicions". This usually comes from research conducted by nurses and other healthcare professionals. Thus it is pertinent that research reports are critically analyzed.

A biographical is simply the researcher writing and recording the accounts and experiences from someone else’s life. Autoehtnography is when the actual subject of the study is writing and recording the story. A life history looks at an individual’s entire life and their personal experiences. Oral history is “gathering a personal reflection of events and their causes and effects from one individual or several individuals” (p. 73). Procedures of a narrative research study consist of: determining if the research problem question best fits narrative research, selecting one or more individuals who have stories or life experiences to tell, consider how the collection of the data and their recording can take different shapes, collect information about the context of these stories, analyze the participant’s stories, and collaborate with participants by actively involving them in research. The challenges of a narrative research are not only that the researcher needs to record an extensive amount of information about the participant but also that the researcher as a clear understanding about the

A qualitative methodological approach was the obvious choice in that it allows for the collection and interpretation of stories, narratives, interviews and other forms of non-quantifiable data. A qualitative approach also does not demand or strive for detached objectivity of the researcher but instead encourages the disclosure of researcher bias and the engagement of the researcher with the research and subjects, often in the role of participant-observer (Dade, Tartakov, Hargrave, & Leigh,

A qualitative study delves into a social or human problem in hopes to formulate a theory about that phenomenon. Paterson et al. (2005) performed a qualitative study that formulated a theory on how male nursing students learn to care. The researchers discovered how and what aspects perpetuated males to learn to care for patients empathetically while in nursing school. This paper will critique the above study noted and provide rationales.

In the following question which is about to explain why scientific methodology is crucial to psychology, I am going to consider what psychology exactly is and why is crucial scientific methodology to this process.

The article I chose to discuss is: Davis, H. A., & Bowman, S. L. (2015). Examining experiences of weight-related oppression in a bariatric sample: A qualitative exploration.

Storytelling, in the form of both personal narratives and the established literary tradition, gives us a fuller understanding of ourselves and the experiences we have with others. "The whole point of stories," he says, "is not 'solutions' or 'resolutions' but a broadening and even heightening of our struggles…" (p. 129). Stories remind us of what is important in life, counsel us, point us in new and/or different directions, engage us in self-reflection, and sometimes inspire us to lead a different life all together.

It began rather calmly in third period College English class in the middle of a warm day in September. The entire class including myself had likely been dreading the idea of typing another paper after the results of the last one, however the idea of typing a narrative instead of an essay offered a slight glimmer of hope at the end of a long dark tunnel. As the time of assigning approached a gentle stir worked its way into and around the frigidly chilled room. Like a shot to the knee with an arrow, our fate was laid before us. We were tasked with writing a personal narrative of three to four pages in length of any topic we choose. Now to some people that may seem like a simple undertaking, however to the majority of the class, the sudden shock of being assigned a paper that wasn’t some form of a compare and or contrast essay was enough to send brain cells into nose dives and levels of panics to heights not seen since Felix Baumgartner threw himself

The stories we tell ourselves shape how we view our world. Our stories provide the foundation for our ideas concerning what can be known, what the nature of truth is, and our cultural values. The subject of storytelling may be investigated through many lenses. For example, academics and others in professions in the areas of history, literature, philosophy, religion, the performing arts, media and communication, and even sometimes law, education, and management studies base their particular interests in the use of story. So too, do those occupied in the fields of social science: Psychology, sociology, anthropology, language, and political science. Narrative scholars emphasize the ways in which story creates meaning for people in terms of social structure and social expectations, by investigating how stories shape identities and teach people how to think and how to feel.

The problem addressed in this study is reported in the work of Carusone, Loeb, and Lohfield (2006) entitled "Pneumonia Care and the Nursing Home: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Resident and Family Member Perspectives". The problem addressed in this study is the fact that nursing home residents are sent to the hospital quite frequently for diagnostic testing and to receive health care services. These transfers are reported as being expensive and to be associated, for some individuals, with an increase in health risks.

The significance of stories have been brought to light through the work of Burkhardt and Nagia-Jacobson (2002).”The process of telling and hearing stories, persons often come to new insight and deeper understandings of themselves because stories include not only events in our lives, but also meanings and interpretations that define the significance of the events for particular lives” (p. 296). The processes that must come to fruition when understanding what the person is trying to say through their stories is further examined by McAdams (1993) “Stories help us organize our thoughts, providing a narrative for human intentions and interpersonal events that is easily remembered and told… Stories may also mend

It is also assumed that the act of telling a story can provide insight into past, present and future events (Espinoza, 1997). By going through this process, individuals can find the importance of certain events and assign roles to people who are a part of their story. This act can allow a client to find new meaning and understanding to their reality (Espinoza, 1997). Not only is a

The narrative method allows for an intimate look into the emotions, thoughts and experiences within a story based on the fact that another has witnessed such or intern through another’s work along for a great picture to be established. Being easily able to validate a claim or narrative account through another is also a huge benefit of the method making it easier for the truth to come out and harder for lies to see the light. Personal narratives and information gained from narrative methods tend to come from truthful sources based on not wanting to tarnish individual’s credibility, and not seeing a reason in creating lies and misleading information. Nevertheless, many problems can also be seen within the method harder and less likely to prevent. The limited perspective is detrimental in the sense that only that one perspective’s views through emotion and feeling are used to describe the situation if there had only been one account. Unless there are multiple viewpoints from different individuals who think and act differently put together to create one image from all different sides, which isn’t very practical to do. The narrative method also creates a restricted view in the sense that anything the reader does not know, you don’t know. Such as taking into consideration different socio-contexts and the individuals thinking spectrums. The narrative account may also be biased, understanding the story through ones eyes, leaves room for events and facts to change based on what the individual thinks, wants, and knows at the

Thus, Dynamic Assessment has been recommended by Gillam et al., (1999) as a method to assess narratives.