The Steps in the Ethnonursing Research Process

The Steps in the Ethnonursing Research Process

The Steps in the Ethnonursing Research Process

1. Identify the general intent or purpose(s) of your
study with a focus on the domain(s) of inquiry
phenomenon under study, area of inquiry, or research questions being addressed.
2. Identify the potential significance of the study to
advance nursing knowledge and practice.
3. Review available literature on the domain or phenomena being studied.
4. Conceptualize a research plan from the beginning to the end with the following general phases
or sequence of factors in mind:
a. Consider the research site, community, and
people to study the phenomena.
b. Deal with the informed consent expectations.
c. Explore and gradually gain entry (with essential permissions/informed consent) to the community, hospital, or country where the study is
being done.

The Steps in the Ethnonursing Research Process

d. Anticipate potential barriers and facilitators related to getekeepers’ expectations, language,
political leaders, location, and other factors.
e. Select and appropriately use the ethnonursing
enablers with the research process; for example, Leininger’s Stranger-Friend Guide, Observation-Participation-Reflection Guide, and others. The researcher may also develop enablers
as guides for their study.
f. Chose key and general informants.
g. Maintain trusting and favorable relationships
with the people conferring with ethnonurse
research experts to prevent unfavorable developments.
h. Collect and confirm data with observations,
interview, participant experiences, and other
data. (This is a continuous process from the
beginning to the end and requires the use of
qualitative research criteria to confirm findings
and credibility factors.)
i. Maintain continuous data processing on computer and with field journals, depicting active
analysis and reflections and discussions with
research mentor(s). Computer processing
with Leininger Templin Thompson’s software
is a helpful means of handling large amounts
of qualitative data.
j. Frequently present and reconfirm findings
with the people studied to check credibility
and confirmability of findings.
k. Make plans to leave the field site, community,
and informants in advance.
5. Do final analysis and writing of research findings
soon after completing the study.
6. Prepare published findings in appropriate journals.
7. Help implement the findings with nurses interested in findings.
8. Plan future studies related to this domain or other
new ones.