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Interpretive Methodologies in Qualitative Nursing Research
Alexa Colgrove Curtis1, Courtney Keeler
1Alexa Colgrove Curtis is assistant dean of graduate nursing and director of the MPH-DNP dual degree program and Courtney Keeler is an associate professor, both at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. Contact author: Alexa Colgrove Curtis, accurtis@usfca.edu . Bernadette Capili, PhD, NP-C, is the column coordinator: bcapili@rockefeller.edu . This manuscript was supported in part by grant No. UL1TR001866 from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
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Editor's note: This is the 12th article in a series on clinical research by nurses. The series is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice-from research design to data interpretation. To see all the articles in the series, go to https://links.lww.com/AJN/A204.
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