With the drastically revised second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals, authors Janice M. Morse and Peggy Anne Field expand on their clear, pragmatic guide to qualitative research study. Step by step, the book examines the research process, from theory development, approaches and conceptualization of the qualitative project, and writing the research proposal to data collection, analysis, and creation of a qualitative report. Complementing the already rich compendium of first-edition material, the authors respond to new developments in technology and acceptability of qualitative methods with major additions: an extensively revised chapter on the process of analyzing data and original sections on concepts, validity, and triangulation; telephone recording, narratives, and focus group interviews; and the use of computers in fieldwork.

Janice Morse (RN, PhD [Anthropology], PhD [Nursing], DNurs [Hon], FAAN) is Director, International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, and Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, Pennsylvania State University. She is a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Senior Scientist and an AHFMR Senior Scholar. She has an interest in developing qualitative methods, and has published more than 200 articles and 13 books on clinical nursing research and research methods. Her more recent books include Qualitative research methods for health professionals (with P. A. Field), Qualitative health research, Qualitative nursing research: A contemporary dialogue, Critical issues in qualitative research, Completing a qualitative project, and The nature of qualitative evidence(with J. M. Swanson and A. Kuzel). She is the editor of Qualitative Health Research, an interdisciplinary journal publishing on qualitative methods and research. She was the 1987 Sigma Theta Tau Episteme Laureate, and in 1999 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle, Australia, for her contribution to nursing knowledge. She is presently funded by CIHR to conduct a qualitative study on suffering and enduring. (RN, PhD [Anthropology], PhD [Nursing], DNurs [Hon], FAAN) is Director, International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, and Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, Pennsylvania State University. She is a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Senior Scientist and an AHFMR Senior Scholar. She has an interest in developing qualitative methods, and has published morethan 200 articles and 13 books on clinical nursing research and research methods. Her more recent books include Qualitative research methods for health professionals (with P. A. Field), Qualitative health research, Qualitative nursing research: A contemporary dialogue, Critical issues in qualitative research, Completing a qualitative project, and The nature of qualitative evidence(with J. M. Swanson and A. Kuzel). She is the editor of Qualitative Health Research, an interdisciplinary journal publishing on qualitative methods and research. She was the 1987 Sigma Theta Tau Episteme Laureate, and in 1999 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle, Australia, for her contribution to nursing knowledge. She is presently funded by CIHR to conduct a qualitative study on suffering and enduring.

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