Understanding Nursing Research links understanding of nursing research with evidence-based practice, and focuses on how to read, critique, and utilize research reports.

Organized around questions when reading reports—how the conclusions were reached, what types of patients the conclusions apply to, how the study was done, and why it was done that way—the text explains the steps of the research process to answer these questions.

Chapters include clinical vignettes, highlighted key concepts, and out-of-class exercises. Appendices present a variety of research examples. This edition includes significant new material on evidence-based practice and more distinction between qualitative and quantitative research.

Contents

1. Evidence-based nursing: using research in practice
2. The research process: components and language of research reports
3. Discussion and conclusions
4. Descriptive results
5. Inferential results
6. Samples
7. Sampling errors and ethics: what can go wrong?
8. Data collection methods
9. Research designs: planning the study
10. Background and the research problem
11. The research process
12. The role of research in nursing

Appendices
Glossary
Index

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