Understanding Nursing Research

Download or read book Understanding Nursing Research written by Carol Leslie Macnee and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook explicitly links understanding of nursing research with evidence-based practice, and focuses on how to read, critique, and utilize research reports. Organized around questions students have 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.