Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) (Paperback)
Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research
Author by:
Denise F Polit
Cheryl Tatano Beck
Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research Book Description
This Resource Manual with its accompanying "Toolkit" CD-ROM is a study guide that provides abundant research tools unlike any on the market! The Resource Manual provides exercises corresponding to each chapter from Polit and Beck's Nursing Research, with a focus on critiquing actual studies. Students will find such comprehensive assets as 11 complete research reports covering a range of nursing research endeavors; full critiques of two systematic reviews providing models for a comprehensive research critique; and a never-before-published funded NINR grant application. The free accompanying Toolkit CD-ROM offers dozens of resources for conducting research that can be downloaded and used directly or adapted. The resources reflect best-practice research material, most of which has been pre-tested and refined in the authors' own research, including such tools as: templates for wording research questions; informed consent forms; a confidentiality pledge for research staff; literature review protocols; content validity forms; and much, much more.
Resource Manual to Accompany Nursing Research Book Details
The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence (PRACTICE OF NURSING RESEARCH: CONDUCT, CRITIQUE, & UTIL ( BURNS)) (Hardcover)
The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence
by Susan K. Grove PhD RN ANP-BC GNP-BC (Author), Nancy Burns PhD RN FCN FAAN (Author)
The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Description
The most authoritative textbook of nursing research now makes it clearer than ever how to appraise, synthesize, and generate evidence for practice
The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Description
With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.
Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.
Enhanced emphasis on research appraisal and synthesis for evidence-based practice equips students not just to generate research evidence but also to appraise and synthesize existing evidence for application to practice.
Carefully edited for a more student-friendly readability and active-voice writing style reduces barriers to learning the typically challenging research content.
In order to focus the text on the more "need to know" content most important for the majority of students, more in-depth content on conceptual models for those planning to lead research studies has been moved from the book to the companion EVOLVE website.
Fresh, new, full-color design provides a more "open" look that facilitates learning with Key Terms highlighted in color and color tabs for the Index and Glossary.
Research examples have been updated throughout to reflect the most current research from the published literature, including excellent examples of qualitative studies.
The coverage of qualitative research has been carefully revised to highlight examples of high-quality qualitative research and to present both qualitative and quantitative approaches as equally valuable.
EVOLVE website provides examples of both qualitative and quantitative research proposals.
Now focuses on the "how to's" of seeking research funding and provides a practical tool to help new researchers move from research proposal to funded research project.
Authoritative coverage provides students the opportunity to learn first-hand from the leaders in the field.
Separate chapter on the cost-driven field of outcomes research helps nurses to demonstrate that what they do results in positive healthcare outcomes.
Provides a separate chapter on the emerging field of intervention research, which establishes "causal explanations" for nursing interventions in response to the growing difficulty of performing true experimental research on human participants.
The Practice of Nursing Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence Book Details
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice (Paperback)
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Author by:
Nancy Burns PhD RN FCN FAAN
Susan K. Grove PhD RN ANP-BC GNP-BC
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Description
Equips students to read and understand nursing research as a foundation for evidence-based practice
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Description
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice, 4th Edition is a market-leading textbook written by two of the most renowned experts in the nursing research field. Now in full-color, this thoroughly updated 4th edition reflects today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. Refined format and features enhance the book's readability and bring include examples and critiques that help students better understand the concepts. The book also features an enhanced emphasis on the emerging, cost-driven field of outcomes research, as well as an improved balance of quantitative and qualitative research. In addition to a full complement of student and faculty ancillaries, a companion Nursing Research Online course is now available for separate purchase with this edition.
Written by two of the leaders in the field of nursing research, the book presents time-tested content with ideal breadth, depth, and readability for students.
Research Examples throughout the text illustrate key concepts with excerpts from the best of the nursing and health sciences literature.
Critiquing Guidelines provide a systematic tool for critiquing published research studies.
Example Critiques demonstrate how to critique an article with excerpts from published studies.
A full Sample Critique of an entire quantitative study helps students synthesize the critiquing skills they have developed through the preceding chapters.
A comprehensive Glossary serves as a convenient quick reference.
Includes a fresh emphasis on the role of nursing research in building an evidence-based practice, with in-depth Research Examples now concluding with Implications for Practice.
A new Outcomes Research chapter addresses this emerging, cost-driven discipline.
Redesigned Critiquing Guidelines offer expert advice on evaluating research articles.
New Sample Critique of a qualitative study complements the quantitative critique.
Tips for Further Study identifies concepts in each chapter students tend to have the most trouble with and points them to corresponding sections in the Study Guide and the Evolve resources for further study.
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice Book Details
Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence Book Description
Intended to help the undergraduate student learn to read and use research as a basis for nursing practice, this new nursing research textbook puts research into the context of evidence-based practice, helping students gain knowledge of research concepts while learning to apply them. The conversational style of the text minimizes the intimidating aspects of research to maximize understanding.
Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence Book Details
Paperback: 586 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (August 17, 2007)
Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice (Nursing Research (Polit)) (Hardcover)
Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Author by:
Denise F Polit
Cheryl Tatano Beck
NursingResearch: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Description
Thoroughly revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Eighth Edition presents methods and tools for generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice. This edition offers more guidance on evaluating and critiquing research evidence. Other revisions include more in-depth coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research and a new chapter on developing and testing new instruments. Note: The for-sale Student Resource guide to accompany the text is now fully revised to meet emerging graduate course needs. New features include a free CD-ROM called the "Toolkit," which includes copious application exercises, samples of systematic reviews, and full critiques of two of the eight studies in the text. Please note that this is sold separately: Student Resource Manual with Toolkit
Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Book Details
