Evidence-based practice is the current buzzword, but the ability to critique research is a valuable skill that is fundamental to nursing practice. Qualitative studies have been growing in popularity, ...

The first article in this series on understanding research (Lee, 2006a) examined the basic terminology used by researchers and identified that qualitative research produced non-numerical (qualitative) ...

This course introduces students to conceptualizing and applying qualitative research in the social sciences. The objective is to enable students to create and critique qualitative research designs ...

Researchers need to select high-quality research designs and communicate those designs clearly to readers. Both tasks are difficult. We provide a framework for formally “declaring” the analytically ...