ABSTRACT
Nursing care is neither easily taught, nor easily learned. Most difficult, is researching nursing care: documenting the art of nursing, describing and eliciting the nurse-patient interaction, the meaning of care to the patient, and the effects and outcomes of such care. Such description requires introspective understanding, interpretative insight, and the creation of theories; it requires identification of interventions, the production of evidence that reveals effectiveness, and it thereby furthers the development of nursing practice. This is what we call qualitative nursing research.
