Nursing research : generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice / Denise F. Polit, PhD, FAAN, President, Humanalysis, Inc., Saratoga Springs, New York, and Professor, Griffith University School of Nursing, Gold Coast, Australia (www.denisepolit.com), Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polit, Denise F., author.

Beck, Cheryl Tatano, author.

Contributor:

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Research--Methodology.

Nursing.

Nursing Research--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Nursing Research--methods.

Physical Description:

xiv, 802 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Ninth Edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2012]

Summary:

"Thoroughly updated and revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Ninth Edition of a classic textbook presents state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. The ancillary Resource Manual includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a Toolkit on a CD-ROM, containing exemplary research tools (e.g., consent forms, a demographic questionnaire, statistical table templates)--all in easily-adapted Word documents"--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9781605477084

1605477087

9781451109146

1451109148

OCLC:

664325099