Full Description
Once considered to be a lesser pedagogical method, the case study is now recognized as a powerful, in-depth tool for examining evidence-based practice as it relates to patient care, family dynamics, professional roles, and organizational systems. Here is a unique how-to guide to conducting research using case studies. Focusing on current leading methodologies, the text describes the philosophical basis and state of the art for using this qualitative method. The peer-reviewed designs (including interviews, physiological measurements, psychological tests, and analyses of patients' diaries and journals) are accompanied by an in-depth research plan, a discussion of appropriate methods, and ethical considerations. The text provides clear directives - bolstered by nursing examples - on how to solve practical problems a researcher may encounter.
Examples from international scholars who have published research using case studies are included along with coaching designed to support the new researcher in making decisions and facing challenges. The text is the eighth in a series of concise volumes addressing a variety of methods for conducting qualitative research. Conceived and edited by a noted expert in qualitative research, the book is designed for both novice and practicing researchers seeking to develop or expand their competency, health institution research divisions, in-service educators and students, and graduate nursing educators and students.
Key Features:
Explains clearly and concisely how to conduct research using case studies
Reviews the philosophical basis for using case studies
Focuses on solving practical problems related to conducting research
Offers rich nursing exemplars and coaching from international health/mental health contributors
Contents
Contributors
Foreword Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, RN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Overview of Case Study Research
Patricia Hentz
2 State of the Art of Qualitative Case Study Methodology in Nursing Research
Johnathan D. Steppe
3 Proposal for Case Study of Obstetric Fistula
Mary de Chesnay, Jessica Ellis, and Tracey Couse
4 Case Study Research: A Methodology for Nursing
Camille Cronin
5 Case Study of Creation of a New Social Service Organization: The Hope Box
Mary de Chesnay, Sarah Koeppen, and Tiffany Turolla
6 Conducting Case Study Research: An Exemplar
Esther Sangster-Gormley
7 Coming Home: Veterans With PTSD Adapting to Life at Home
Patricia Hentz
8 Enabling Systems Raising Awareness of Breast Cancer Among Muslim Omani Women: A Case Study Exemplar
Esra Al Khasawneh and Michael C. Leocadio
9 Case Study Methods for Graduate Students
Mary de Chesnay and Genie E. Dorman
10 Canine Partners in Health Care
Leslie Himot, Tanya Gordon, Rhonda L. Harrison, and Mary de Chesnay
11 From the Horse's Mouth: Case Study of a Handler's Perspective of Equine-Facilitated Therapy
Christopher Hayes and Christopher R. Walker
12 "I'm the Guy With the Dog": Life History of a Combat Veteran Suffering From PTSD and TBI
Stacey Tatroe and Laura D. Elledge
13 "Cheering Myself On: Bella's Story
Melissa Anderson and Nancy Chambers
14 Loss of a Child to an African Family: A Phenomenological Case Study
Jacqueline Kigundu and Titus Sairo
15 Tragedy to Triumph: Life History of an Older Woman Living With AIDS
Tracey Couse and Kelly Heard
16 The Under-12 Rule: A Review on the Pediatric Lung Allocation Policy
Amy P. Pope
17 The Health Consequences of Mothers Using Drugs and the Legal System's Call to Action
Kathy Barnett
Appendix A List of Journals That Publish Qualitative Research
Mary de Chesnay
Appendix B Essential Elements for a Qualitative Proposal
Tommie Nelms
Appendix C Writing Qualitative Research Proposals
Joan L. Bottorff
Appendix D Outline for a Research Proposal
Mary de Chesnay
Appendix E Qualitative Software Comparison
Paul Mihas
Index
