Ethnonursing Research Method：Essential to Discover and Advance Asian Nursing Knowledge

　It is a new era in nursing worldwide as nursescholars, clinicians, teachers, and administrators seek ways to know as fully as possible theessence and major features of the discipline andprofession of nursing. Nurse researchers areespecially interested to identify theories and research methods that can generate substantiveknowledge relevant to the people that nursesserve and are useful to the nursing profession. In this new era of nursing, there is an urgentchallenge to use theories and research methodsthat will facilitate knowledge discovery relatedto specific cultures.