ethnographic research

types

 Focused ethnography

 Meta-ethnography

 Ethnoscience

 Ethnonursing

philosophical underpinnings

 Roots of ethnography are in naturalism

method

 Requires that the researcher go through a gatekeeper

 Strives to discover the emic perspective

data collection and management

 Three important elements to the interview

• Explicit purpose

• Ethnographic explanations

• Ethnographic question

 Constant comparison method

 Data coded and grouped according to their meanings

examples

nursing research using ethnography

 Rosenbaum (1990)

• Cultural care needed for older Greek Canadian widows

 van Belle et al. (2020)

• Person-centered nursing care

 Strandås and Bondas (2018)

• Metasynthesis to explore the health benefits from the nurse–patient relationship

 Street (1992)

• Inside Nursing: A Critical Ethnography of Clinical Nursing Practice