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The grounded theory looks to analyze how people understand and interact with other people in their world and interpret the socially shared meanings which influence human behaviors. In practice, nurses can use grounded theory to assess health patterns in population groups and communities and predict health patterns and care concerns in nursing practice (Singh & Estefan, 2018). For example, grounded theory analyzes the causes of altered mental status among patients in the nursing home and the hazards of falls and unstable gait.

Ethnographic research analyzes people in their environment through observation and face-to-face participant interviewing (Lambert et al., 2011).

Ethnography in nursing means obtaining access to ethnicity or culture’s health beliefs and practices, for example, observing stress levels in the medical personnel in a high-volume hospital (Robertson & Boyle 1984)

Grounded theory and ethnographic research are used in qualitative studies in numerous social science fields. They are both based on inductive and systematic methods of exploring cultural aspects such as beliefs, values, behaviors, language. The particular group of the population has lived together over an extended period of time, have similar attitude, beliefs, attitudes, habits. The difference between them is that a grounded theory describes the pattern of the research aspects, the ethnographic represents the cultural interpretation of the research aspects in a particular culture.

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Lambert et al. (2011). Employing an ethnographic approach: key characteristics. 19(1):17-24. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr2011.10.19.1.17.c8767

Robertson, M. H., Boyle, J.S. (1984). Ethnography: contributions to nursing research. Leading Global Nursing Research.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1984.tb00342.x

Singh, S., Estefan, A. (2018). Selecting a Grounded Theory Approach for Nursing Research. Global Qualitative Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333393618799571

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