Using a critical discourse analysis approach in analyzing data is useful in exploring meanings and the wider social, political, and historical context of the meanings. However, analyzing data using a critical discourse analysis approach can be difficult and complex. Hence there is a need for well-defined explicit approaches for discourse analysts to follow. The aim of this paper was to explore a clearly explained framework as a method for data analysis in a study investigating spirituality in nursing. Schneider’s method provided the researcher with such a clearly structured framework underpinned by critical discourse analysis that was used in the analysis of a series of interviews conducted with Australian registered nurses involved in the development of practice standards and those applying them in clinical practice. Schneider’s work steps provided a means of applying Fairclough’s and Chilton’s approaches to critical discourse analysis in a systematic and efficient manner to the analysis of the interview texts. The application of this method enabled the generation of findings that revealed the participants’ discursive constructions of spirituality.

使用批判性话语分析方法来分析数据有助于探索意义以及意义的更广泛的社会，政治和历史背景。但是，使用批判性话语分析方法分析数据可能既困难又复杂。因此，有必要为话语分析人员遵循明确定义的显式方法。本文的目的是探索一个清晰解释的框架，作为研究护理灵性的一项研究中的数据分析方法。施耐德的方法为研究人员提供了一个清晰的结构化框架，该框架以批判性话语分析为基础，用于分析与澳大利亚注册护士进行的一系列访谈，这些访谈涉及实践标准的制定以及将其应用到临床实践中。施耐德的工作步骤提供了一种将费尔克劳和奇尔顿的方法用于批判性话语分析的方法，该方法以系统和有效的方式对访谈文本进行了分析。这种方法的应用使得发现的产生得以揭示，这些发现揭示了参与者对灵性的话语建构。