護理研究的發展，在國內可以說已步入起飛階段，然而，護理研究與護理現實(nursing reality)、護理理念的關係，到底應建立何種關係?一直是護理界的潛伏隱憂。本論文旨在透過質性研究資料的分析方法，探討能夠回歸護理專業特質的一種研究途徑。本論文將分成二個部份刊登，第一部份先從研究主題之認識學、方法學以及研究方法的角度，探討國內外推展質性護理研究的背景，進而以臨床護理實際情境為梗幹，探討以歸納法與演繹分析質性資料的方法，做為進一步將質性研究資料加以量化的基礎。

　　　　　The development of nursing research in Taiwan seems to have reached theso-called ?take-off ? stage. Yet the relationships between nursing research ,nursing reality and nursing beliefs have remained a hidden concern to the profession.The purpose of this study is to explore a proposed research methodology which canbetter reconcile nursing research to the nursing empirical world. This paper will bedivided into two parts. The first part is a review of the development of qualitativenursing research both in Taiwan and abroad, based on the topics of epistemology,methodology and research method. Using a clinical nursing situation as anempiri-cal world for study, inductive versus deductive approaches in analyzingquantitative research data are presented.