Foundations of Nursing Research
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- UPDATED: Helps students clearly understand both the elements of the research process and the types of research studies. Excerpts from recent nursing research studies conducted by nurses in the U.S. and around the world clearly illustrate various aspects of the research process.
- UPDATED: Details evidence-based practice and ways to promote applications to nursing. Chapter 2 provides an overview of evidence-based practice (EBP). Chapter 3 introduces the reader to ways in which EBP can be promoted.
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- Helps students become interested in research, empowering them to evaluate and apply research to nursing practice. Concise, thorough, readable, and exceptionally learner-friendly, this book takes the intimidation out of the research process, and helps students understand the importance of research to nursing today.
- UPDATED: Helps students clearly understand both the elements of the research process and the types of research studies. Excerpts from recent nursing research studies conducted by nurses in the U.S. and around the world clearly illustrate various aspects of the research process.
- UPDATED: Details evidence-based practice and ways to promote applications to nursing. Chapter 2 provides an overview of evidence-based practice (EBP). Chapter 3 introduces the reader to ways in which EBP can be promoted.
- Walks students through the experience of conducting, assessing, and utilizing nursing research.
- Makes sure students understand all new terminology. Hundreds of key terms with clear definitions demystify the language of research by presenting all new terms in bold, and defining them on first reference.
- Empowers students to objectively evaluate research studies.
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- End-of-chapter sections are devoted to critiquing the specific step of the research process that each of the chapters address (Chapter 4, Chapters 6-10, and Chapters 12-17.)
- A set of critiquing questions is highlighted (Chapter 4, Chapters 6-10, and Chapters 12-17.)
- A summary of guidelines for critiquing both quantitative and qualitative study reports is presented in Chapter 20.
- An engaging critiquing exercise in Appendix B asks readers to obtain a copy of a specific research article and then critique the article using the questions listed.
- Enables students to reinforce and review the material they’ve just studied. End-of-chapter self-tests provide opportunities for students to evaluate their mastery. Answers to all of the questions with their rationales are provided at the back of the book.
- Guides students in intelligently applying the growing amount of online information available to them, and in finding quality information sources that can be relied upon. Research links includes examples of Internet megasearch engines, coverage of all four online CINAHL databases, the free Clinical Trials online database, and information on accessing OJIN.
- Informs students of the monetary issues involved in healthcare. Chapter 19 provides numerous examples of nursing research studies with a focus on healthcare economics, demonstrating that nurses are not only caring, but cost-effective providers of healthcare.
