Janice M Morse

A highly updated and revised edition, this book combines a practical, how-to approach with a research context. It describes the process for developing and maintaining a fall prevention program in institutions and outlines the Morse Fall Scale and information for understanding how the scale works.

"The leading figure in qualitative health research (QHR), Janice M. Morse, asserts that QHR is its own separate discipline--distinct from both traditional health research and other kinds of qualitative research--and examines the implications of this position for theory, research, and practice. She contends that the health care environments transform many of the traditional norms of qualitative research and shape a new and different kind of research...

Topics range from protecting participants' confidentiality to finishing a project, from critiquing qualitative research to dealing with rejection, and from generalisability in qualitative research to the politicking of research results.