• Reflect on the comments made by Dr. Mauk in this week’s media presentation on the value of qualitative research in nursing.

To prepare:
• Reflect on the comments made by Dr. Mauk in this week’s media presentation on the value of qualitative research in nursing.
• Locate the journal Qualitative Health Research in the Sage Premier database in the Walden Library.
• From this journal, select an article of interest to you that was published within the last 3 years.
• Review the information on different qualitative research designs in Chapter 21 of your course text.
• Determine what qualitative research design was used in your selected article and evaluate whether it was the best choice.
• Consider ethical issues involved in the study and how the researchers addressed them.
• Think about how using a quantitative design would have affected the type of data gathered.