Autoethnography: a new research method in nursing

has been used gradually in nursing research. While this method is important in nursing, there are not enough Persian manuscripts. Therefore, this study was performed to review previous researches in order to clarify and describe definitions, classifications, principles and conceptual bases of autoethnography. Persian and foreign articles and books were used in this review study.Autoethnography is one of the most modern methods of qualitative research. It

Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), ProQuest, PsycINFO, Social Sciences Index,ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Medline databases. Articles from each of these databases were examined to identify major themes, as well as areas of agreement and disagreement across disciplines.Keywords of "autoethnography" and "nursing" were searched in Cumulative Index to

explores personal experiences as the sources of data.Autoethnography is a subgroup of ethnography. In this method, the researcher

knowledge Autoethnography is a major method in nursing research that can develop new