Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Health - Nursing Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,0, Philosophic and Theologic University in Vallendar (Pflegewissenschaftliche Fakultät), course: Modul Qualitative Methoden der Pflegeforschung, Kurs Erhebung qualitativer Daten, language: English, abstract: The expert interview is a frequently used method in empirical social research. It is used in policy and implementation research, in industrial sociology, in elite and use research and in many areas of applied social research. The main interest in the interview is the expert knowledge, the expertise of a person (cf. Bohnsack et al. 2003, p. 57).Against the background of the increasing use of the expert interview in nursing science, this interview form is presented as a method of qualitative social research in the first part of this paper.A further chapter deals with the question of who can be drawn into the circle of experts for this interview form. The following chapters contain the concrete application of the expert interview as well as the evaluation of the data.An excursus at the end of the thesis introduces the expert interview in health and care research. A critical methodological discussion of the expert interview concludes this paper.