ABSTRACT
Caroline Jane employed grounded theory methodology to address practice gaps related to establishing therapeutic relationship with vulnerable and potentially stigmatized clients in the context of public health nursing practice. She explored the how-to be of relationship building between public health nurses and lower income lone-parent mothers living on public assistance. Caroline identified the interactional concern was that professional praxis permits a relatively infrequent and short period of interaction, and that public health nurses (PHN) are persistently struggling to maximize the narrow window of relational opportunity to ascertain burdening issues of mothers. Review and select younger scholar’s substantive codes that seem related to the core variable. After analyzing new data, compare these new substantive codes with their existing codes and conceptual categories. New data from other data sources selected through theoretical sampling were analyzed beginning with substantive coding. Interpretive analysis, theoretical integration and explication were fine-tuned as Caroline wrote up her grounded theory study.
