Method slurring: the grounded theory/phenomenology example

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Increasingly, qualitative research methods are being embraced by nurse researchers because these approaches allow exploration of human experience Failure to explicate qualitative methodologies is resulting in a body of nursing research that is either mislabelled or is classified broadly as qualitative and subject to charges that qualitative research lacks rigour In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of specificity in methodology and distinguish between phenomenology and grounded theory, two frequently misused terms in the description of qualitative methodology

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