Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Series Foreword -- Focus -- Proposals -- Commonalities in Methods -- Interviewing Basics -- Ethical Issues -- Rigor -- Data Analysis -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Share Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing -- Chapter 1: Learning the Historical Method: Step by Step -- Value of Historical Research -- Why Select the Method? -- Steps of Historical Research -- What Is Your Interest? -- What Are Your Questions? -- Determining a Title -- Searching the Literature -- Secondary Sources -- Primary Sources -- Interpret the Data -- Tell the Story -- Other Considerations Along the Way -- Next Steps -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Essay on Sources -- Notes -- References -- Commentary: Interview with Dr. Barbra Mann Wall -- References -- Chapter 3: Inside Track of Doing Historical Research: My Dissertation Story -- In the Beginning -- Developing an Interest in History -- Value of Historical Research -- Evolution of My Becoming a Nurse Historian -- Learning the Method -- The Importance of Archives -- Covering Costs -- Time Constraints -- Knowing When to Stop -- Lessons Learned -- Choosing a Title -- Next Steps -- References -- Chapter 4: History in the Making: Organizing a Nursing History Dissertation -- Introduction to a Historical Dissertation -- Formulating Ideas for a Dissertation Topic -- Getting Organized -- Choosing a Committee for a History Dissertation -- Travel Grants and Funding -- Archive Considerations -- The Rockefeller Foundation's Nurse Leader -- Corroborating the Evidence -- Footnotes or Endnotes -- Setting the Time Period -- Translating Documents -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Conducting Oral History Research in Community Mental Health Nursing -- Description of the Study -- Summary of the Study.

Conceptualizing the Study -- Oral History: Methodological Features -- Memory -- Sampling and Recruitment -- Collecting Oral Histories and Consent -- Preservation of Oral History -- Analysis and Interpretation of Oral History: Whose Views? -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Celluloid Angels: The Power of Stories -- A Good Story: Herodotus and the Phoenicians -- Why Look at Films? My Story -- Study Design -- Qualitative Data Analysis: Themes Related to How the Image of Nurses/Nursing was Portrayed in Feature Films (1900-2007) -- Description of the Study Results: The Image of Nurses/Nursing in Feature Films -- Challenges and Issues -- Personal Reflection -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Navajo Experience of Elizabeth Forster, Public Health Nurse -- Public Health Nursing: Cross-Cultural Core -- Background -- Navajo Reservation -- Cross-Cultural Strengths -- Conflict -- Discussion -- Acknowledgment -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Sojourner: Life Stories of a Global Health Nurse -- Refugee Heritage -- A Midwestern Childhood -- The Toughest Job I Ever Loved -- Coming Home -- Public Health Heroes -- The Cambodian Journey -- Journeys of Learning -- Sojourns from the Field -- Exemplars of Public Health Excellence -- Midwifery: The Margins of Life -- Cross-Species Stories -- Finding My Voice -- The World Is a Small Place -- Reflection -- References -- Chapter 9: Aviation Pioneers: World War II Air Evacuation Nurses -- The Newsreel -- The Times -- Nurses of the Sky -- The Cutting Room Floor -- The Sky's the Limit -- References -- Commentary: History through the Lens of a Nurse -- The Road Taken -- The Road Ahead -- The Road Behind -- References -- Appendix A: List of Journals That Publish Qualitative Research -- Nursing Journals -- References -- Appendix B: Essential Elements for a Qualitative Proposal.

Appendix C: Writing Qualitative Research Proposals -- Purpose of a Research Proposal -- Qualitative Research: Basic Assumptions -- Qualitative Research -- Kinds of Qualitative Research -- Challenges for Qualitative Researchers -- Questions a Proposal Must Answer -- Tips to Answer these Questions -- Sections of a Typical Qualitative Proposal -- Introducing the Study-First Para -- The Problem/Research Question -- Purpose of the Qualitative Study -- Literature Review -- Methods-Challenges here -- Methods Section -- Qualitative Studies are Valuable for Research -- Sample -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Questions for Data Management and Analysis -- Trustworthiness (Soundness of the Research) -- Examples of Strategies for Limiting Bias in Interpretations -- Other Components -- Last Bits of Advice -- References -- Appendix D: Outline for a Research Proposal -- Index.