Both quantitative and qualitative research methods inform nursing practice but quantitative research tends to be more emphasized in addition many nurses dont feel comfortable conducting or evaluating qualitative research but once you understand qualitative research you can more easily apply it to your nursing practice. December 3 2020 by nursing papers qualitative research methods think about an educational situation whether classroom instruction or administrative for example some students cannot learn to solve story problems say that you wanted to explore the situation more closely using one of the qualitative research types. Differences between qualitative and quantitative research qualitative quantitative methods include focus groups unstructured or in depth interviews and reviews of documents for types of themes surveys structured interviews measurements observations and reviews of records or documents for numeric or quantifiable information