Calman's Study examines, from patients' perspectives, what constitutes competent nursing care and how, with this perspective in mind, patients would view the prospect of evaluating the competence of nurses. The study was guided by a primary research question “how do patients construct nurses' concept of competence?” (Calmann, 2006). Her research aimed to create a theoretical understanding of patients' views on nursing competence and what their views are when faced with the prospect of evaluating the competence of the nurses who cared for them. The research strives to provide evidence that can help improve future planning of patient involvement in nurse education. Calman used a number of techniques to collect and analyze data, it could be suggested that it would have been more beneficial or appropriate to choose alternative techniques. Calman took a qualitative approach to his research, using a grounded theory approach originally defined by Glaser and Strauss as “the discovery of theory from data systematically obtained from social research” (Glaser and Strauss, 1967, 2). Generally in grounded theory studies, and as shown in Calman's, they are "focused on social processes or actions: they ask what happens and how people interact" (Sbaraini et al, 2001, 129) and show an interest in 'symbolic interactionism. Grounded Theory principles were used to guide data collection, analysis, and theory development in Calman's study. Grounded Theory studies begin with general questions and in Calman's study it was "how do patients construct nurses' concept of competence?", and unlike other qualitative methods instead of following a set theory, grounded theory uses methods ... half of the article... ...your view on nursing competence. Nurse Education Today 26:719-725Corbin, Juliet & Strauss, Anselm (1990), Grounded Theory Research: procedures, standards and evaluation criteria. Zeitschrift fur Sociology 19:418-427Glaser, Barney G & Strauss, Anselm L. (1967), The discovery of grounded theory: strategies for qualitative research. Chicago: Aldine Publishing CompanyGSR International (2013) Overview of Nivivo 10. http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx (accessed 11 January 2014) Sbaraini, Alexandra, Carter, Stacy, Evans, Wendell & Blinkhorn, Anthony (2001) How To Do a Grounded Theory Study: A Worked Example of a Study of Dental Practices. BMC Medical Research Methodology 11:128-137Starks, Helene & Brown, Susan (2001) Choose your method: a comparison of phenomenology, discourse analysis and grounded theory. Qualitative health research. 17:1372-1380.