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A guide to discourse analysis

01 October 2008

Nurse Researcher

A&S Science

Discourse analysis (DA) is becoming an increasingly popular research strategy for researchers in various disciplines, yet it evades a common understanding and...

Discourse analysis and social constructionism

01 December 2004

Nurse Researcher

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis (DA) is underpinned by a social constructionist orientation to knowledge. Social constructionism rests on the philosophical assumptions that...

Discourse analysis: integrating theoretical and methodological approaches

01 October 2006

Nurse Researcher

Analysis

This article by Carmel Seibold describes a study of 20 single midlife women undertaken in Melbourne, Australia, and an approach to analysis that fuses theoretical...

The supervisor-student relationship in developing methodology

01 July 2007

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

In this article, Carmel Seibold explores the unique relationship between supervisor and student in one aspect of the supervision process: choosing a methodology. It...

An adaptable instrument and method for exploring care and compassion

23 January 2017

Nurse Researcher

Evidence & practice

Background Narratives, particularly when visual and auditory elements are added to words, reveal more about cultures and behaviours, including those present in...

Theoretical and methodological approaches in discourse analysis

01 December 2004

Nurse Researcher

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis (DA) embodies two main approaches: Foucauldian DA and radical social constructionist DA. Both are underpinned by social constructionism to a...

Application of discourse analysis to nursing inquiry

01 December 2004

Nurse Researcher

Discourse analysis

Discourse analysis (DA) has frequently been misapplied within nursing research, demonstrating a lack of understanding among some nurse researchers of theoretical/...

The under-used resource of historical research

01 April 2008

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

A Complete System of Nursing (Ashdown 1934) describes the strongly held view of the ‘good nurse’ as a capable, respectable, vocationally oriented and even-tempered...

Influence of communal and private folklore on bringing meaning to the experience of persistent pain

13 November 2015

Nurse Researcher

Storytelling

Aim To provide an overview of the relevance and strengths of using the literary folkloristic methodology to explore the ways in which people with persistent pain...