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Qualitative research methods began to appear in nursing in the 1960s and 1970s, to cautious and reluctant acceptance. In the 1980s, qualitative health research emerged as a distinctive domain and mode of inquiry (Sandelowski 2003). “Qualitative research” refers to any kind of research that produces findings not arrived at by means of statistical analysis or other means of quantification (Borbasi and Jackson 2012; Strauss and Corbin 1990). It uses a naturalistic approach that seeks to understand phenomena related to persons' lives, stories, and behaviors, including those related to health, organizational functioning, social movements, and interactional relationships. It is underpinned by several theoretical perspectives, namely constructivist‐interpretive, critical, post‐positivist, post‐structural/post‐modern, and feminist (Ingham‐Broomfield 2015). One conducts a qualitative study to uncover the nature of a person's experiences with a phenomenon in context‐specific conditions such as illness (acute and chronic), addiction, loss, disability, and end‐of‐life (EOL ). Qualitative research is used to explore, uncover, describe, and understand what lies behind a given phenomenon, about which little may be known. This deeper understanding can only be attained through a qualitative inquiry, and not through mere numbers or statistical models. Qualitative inquiry represents a legitimate mode of social and human science exploration, without apology and without comparison to quantitative research (Creswell 2007).