Portable MP3 players: innovative devices for recording qualitative interviews

Fernandez, Ritin S RN, MN (Critical Care)
Griffiths, Rhonda DrPH, RN

Ritin S Fernandez RN, MN (Critical Care), is a doctoral candidate and nurse manager, South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research, Australia, and deputy director, New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Health Care (a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute)
Rhonda Griffiths DrPH, RN, is director, South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research, Australia, professor of nursing, University of Western Sydney, and director, New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Health Care

This article has been subject to double-blind review

Nurse Researcher 15(1):p 7-15, 2007.

Digital technology has provided a new way of recording qualitative interviews, surpassing the clarity, usability and storage capabilities of conventional tape recorders. Ritin Fernandez and Rhonda Griffiths examine a technological resource that pervades modern social life and which can be used effectively for digitally recording interviews for qualitative research