Making sense of evidence-based practice for nursing : an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research and systematic reviews / Debra Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Debra, Dr., author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Research--Methodology.

Nursing.

Evidence-based nursing.

Evidence-based medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Contents:

Introduction to research and evidence based practice

How do you put together a good focused research question?

How do you search for evidence to answer that question?

When you've found some evidence how do you know if it's any good?

Let's talk about the characteristics of a quantitative design -the randomised controlled trial (RCT)

Some non-randomised quantitative designs

quasi experiments, cohort studies and case-control studies

What are effect measures for dichotomous data?

What are effect measures for continuous data?

How do you critically appraise quantitative evidence such as RCTs?

Let's talk about the characteristics of some qualitative designs -phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory

How do you critically appraise qualitative evidence such as phenomenology?

Why we need systematic reviews and initiatives like the Cochrane Library

Clinical guidelines and implementation of EBP

Your role in all of this?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Evans, Debra. Making sense of evidence-based practice for nursing

ISBN:

9781003156017

1003156010

Publisher Number:

99992322557

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.