title: Qualitative methodologies in health research: interpretive referential of Patricia Benner.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  this article reports on the experience of using the interpretive phenomenological framework of Patricia Benner in a Brazilian context. Benner's interpretive phenomenology, based on existential and interpretative philosophy, aims to understand human experiences in the particular worlds of research participants. Data were collected through interviews with nine nurses in November and December 2014.
  
  
  RESULTS
  data analysis process according to Benner's framework consisted of: transcription, coding, thematic analysis, and search for paradigmatic cases and examples. Therefore, the prior knowledge of the researcher is an important part of the study, consisting in manners of the research conduction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of this methodological framework entailed a great challenge for the researcher, however, it also enabled a unique opportunity to illuminate important existential phenomena related to the daily lives of research participants.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors: Raíssa Passos
authors: RP
authors: dos Santos
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors: Eliane Tatsch
authors: ET
authors: Neves
authors: Montreal Children's Hospital, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors: Franco
authors: F
authors: Carnevale
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005086:Existentialism; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012106:Research