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Hello, I am a doctoral student in nursing. I'm conducting a RE with a committee, while incredibly scholarly in research, are new to RE. I thankfully have 1 committee member who is my 'expert' in RE, but she isn't familiar with NVivo. I'm seeking advice on coding, and analyzing in Nvivo . I am currently in Phase 1 (theory development) phase and am analyzing literature and interviews, seeking CMOs to use in Phase 2 (theory testing). I created the nodes 'context' 'mech' & 'outcome', and then added child nodes - all of my (many many) Cs, Ms, & Os. I had trouble linking them together (still not clear on how to use the 'relationship' function). I read a blog and an article that gave a little peek at how NVivo was done (most articles just say "Nvivo was used" - very frustrating). this gave me the idea to code whole statements/paragraphs as a CMO (not individually). When i started looking, I saw CMOs appear in interview statements. It seems people tend to talk in CMOs or MOs - not just an O or C or M. I created a node called "theories" and child nodes were the short names of these theories. In the description of the child node (CMO) I wrote a starter-CMO statement and then coded the paragraph to the appropriate Cs Ms & Os. I'm coloring my nodes also. All Ms are one color, all Cs are another... This way, when I view 'coding stripes' I can quickly visualize paragraphs and the Cs Ms & Os associated with it. ok - sorry to be so long winded. Can anyone add hints on using NVivo? I'm very open to comments and ideas. Thanks