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Essentials of nursing research : appraising evidence for nursing practice / Denise F. Polit and Cheryl Tatano Beck.
Holman Biotech Commons RT81.5 .P63 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polit, Denise F., author.
- Beck, Cheryl Tatano, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Research.
- Nursing.
- Evidence-based nursing.
- Nursing--Study and teaching.
- Nursing Research.
- Evidence-Based Nursing.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nursing Research.
- Evidence-Based Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 425 pages : color illustrations, charts (some color), color portraits ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Tenth edition.
- Other Title:
- Appraising evidence for nursing practice
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The world's most widely used nursing research textbook, Essentials of Nursing Research, Tenth Edition equips students with everything they need to confidently apply research to nursing practice. AJN award-winning authors Denise Polit and Cheryl Beck clarify the language of nursing research and instill a practical understanding of nursing research fundamentals and the research process for both quantitative and qualitative studies -- including design principles; sampling and data collection; criteria for assessing data quality; appraising the quality, rigor, and trustworthiness of studies; and approaches to understand the statistical results" -- publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Overview of nursing research and its role in evidence-based practice
- Introducing nursing research in an evidence-based practice
- Understanding key concepts and steps in quantitative and qualitative research
- Reading and critically appraising research articles
- Attending to ethics in research
- Part 2. Preliminary steps in quantitative and qualitative research
- Identifying research problems, research questions, and hypotheses
- Finding and reviewing research evidence in the literature
- Understanding theoretical and conceptual frameworks
- Part 3. Designs and methods for quantitative and qualitative nursing research
- Appraising quantitative research design
- Appraising sampling and data collection in quantitative studies
- Appraising qualitative designs and approaches
- Appraising sampling and data collection in qualitative studies
- Understanding mixed methods research, quality improvement, and other special types of research
- Part 4. Analysis, interpretation, and application of nursing research
- Understanding statistical analysis of quantitative data
- Interpreting quantitative findings and evaluating clinical significance
- Understanding the analysis of qualitative data
- Appraising trustworthiness and integrity in qualitative research
- Learning from systematic reviews
- Putting research evidence into practice: evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781975141851
- 1975141857
- OCLC:
- 1198218206
- Publisher Number:
- 99995332028
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