en Nursing Education Nursing Education Debate Article Debate Article <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify"><strong>Pr&eacute;cis</strong>: This debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. Planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. One of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. A qualified report can answer the critics. This requires that the qualitative articles cover all points about the selected method and rigourness of study conduct to convince policy makers, managers and all readers in different level.</p> Quality improvement, Health care field, Qualitative research. 310 312 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-978&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mahnaz Sanjari mahnaz.sanjari@gmail.com 200319475328460021727 200319475328460021727 No Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Fatemeh Jafaraghayee fja_a80@yahoo.com 200319475328460021728 200319475328460021728 No Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. Maryam Aalaa aalaamaryam@gmail.com 200319475328460021729 200319475328460021729 No Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sci-ences, Tehran, Iran. Neda Mehrdad Irannmehrdad@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460021730 200319475328460021730 Yes Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, & Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.