The nurse is conducting qualitative nursing research. She is studying the impact of surrogate decision making regarding end-of-life decisions; the goal is to describe the lived experience of the surrogate decision-makers in terms of their perception
of the role and the significance of the decisions. What is this type of design strategy called? a. Ethnography
b. Grounded theory
c. Descriptive survey
d. Phenomenology
D
The focus of phenomenology is on the lived experience of a specific phenomenon from the per-spective of the people who are engaged in the situation.
Ethnography involves the observation and description of behaviour in social settings.
Grounded theory is a research method which generates hypotheses and theories about social processes inductively from the data (i.e., examining the situation afresh) rather than reviewing the literature to see what has already been researched.
Descriptive survey designs use statistical techniques to test for significant relationships among the variables.
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