This long-awaited new edition of the 1986 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner has been completely revised and updated. It preserves the format of the original -- and adds new material on case study methods, study proposals and formats, ethical considerations, institutional review concerns, and the dialect of qualitative and quantitative methods. Essential for courses on nursing research, and indispensable for researchers conducting qualitative studies. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.