Narrative research is an increasingly popular way of carrying outqualitative research by analysing the stories or experience. Thefindings of this type of qualitative research can be used toimprove nursing education, nursing practice and patient care and toexplore the experience of illness and the interaction betweenprofessionals. Narrative Research in Nursing provides acomprehensive yet straightforward introduction to narrativeresearch which examines the skills needed to perform narrativeinterviews, analyse data, and publish results and enables nurseresearchers to use the method systematically and rigorously.Narrative Research in Nursing examines the nature ofnarratives and their role in the development of nursing and healthcare. Strategies and procedures are identified, including thepracticalities of sampling, data collection, analysis andpresentation of findings. The authors discuss authenticity ofevidence and ethical issues while also exploring problems andpracticalities inherent in narrative inquiry and its dissemination.Narrative Research in Nursing is a valuable resource fornurses interested in writing and publishing narrative research.

Section 1: The nature of narratives.Chapter 1 What is a narrative?.Chapter 2 The appropriateness of narratives for nursing andhealth care.Chapter 3 Social construction, postmodernism and narrativeidentity.Chapter 4 Rigour in narrative research.Section 2: Strategies and procedures in narrative research.Chapter 5 The art of sampling.Chapter 6 Data collection in narrative research.Chapter 7 Narrative analysis: Contextualising narratives.Chapter 8 Presenting the findings.Section 3: Quality and authenticity in narrative research.Chapter 9 Narrative and ethics.Chapter 10 Critical review and problems.Chapter 11 The evaluation of narrative research reports andarticles.Chapter 12 Publication and dissemination.Section 4: The practicalities of narrative research.Chapter 13 The skills of the narrative researcher.Chapter 14 Transcribing narrative data.Chapter 15 Writing a proposal for narrative research nursing