The nurse researcher is new to qualitative research and wishes to use an interview as the data collection method for a study. Which strategy would best serve this nurse?
1. Write structured interview questions.
2. Practice interview technique under the guidance of an experienced interviewer.
3. Have the subject complete the interview by writing down answers to the questions.
4. Choose a different technique to gather information since interviewing is seldom successful in qualitative research.
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Rationale 1: The interview questions should be unstructured.
Rationale 2: This is a good strategy to help the researcher to perfect his or her technique prior to the study.
Rationale 3: These interviews should be done in a face-to-face encounter or over the telephone. If the subject writes answers, the technique is a questionnaire.
Rationale 4: Interview is a standard and common technique used in qualitative research.
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