Critique of the critical incident technique

Journal of Research in Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-309

  Sharoff, Leighsa ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

critical incident technique; descriptive data collection; methodology; qualitative research; reflection; story telling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990370565     PISSN: 17449871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744987107081248     Document Type: Article

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