F.A. Davis Company

Where is the evidence in a nursing research study? What is the evidence? How good is the evidence? And, how is it relevant to providing evidence-based nursing care? Ensure that students can meet the AACN’s (American Association of Colleges of Nursing) goal of identifying valid research findings and using them to determine if they are providing care that is supported by evidence.

• Considers the conceptual model that guided the research, concepts, and propositions, providing perspective on nursing’s view of person, health, wellbeing, and environment.
• Examines the middle range theory that was generated or tested, and its relation to concepts that can be used in clinical practice.
• Reviews the empirical research methods used, with an emphasis on whether the findings can be used to guide development of theory-based, evidence-based nursing practice.
• Features a Course Companion and Study Guide on the bonus CD-ROM bound into every book that makes learning and teaching easier.
• Powerpoint slides with an outline of critical content for each chapter, which students can print and bring to class to use as the basis for their class notes.
• Learning exercises that direct the student to web links for research articles that they can critique.
• 8 test questions (and answers) per chapter.
• A template to help students to develop a report of the findings of their review of the literature; students can fill in the fields and print out a report to hand in to their instructor.

1. Preface
2. I.  Introduction to Research
1. Research and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
2. Conceptual-Theoretical-Empirical Structures for Research
3. The Contents of Research Reports
4. A Framework for Evaluating Conceptual-Theoretical-Empirical Structures for Research
3. II.  Evaluation of Conceptual Models and Theories
5. Evaluation of Conceptual-Theoretical-Empirical Linkages
6. Evaluation of Middle-Range Theories
4. III. Evaluation of Empirical Research Methods
7. Evaluation of Research Designs for Theory-Generating and Theory-Testing Research
8. Evaluation of Samples
9. Evaluation of Research Instruments and Experimental Conditions
10. Evaluation of Procedures for Data Collection
11. Evaluation of Procedures for Protecting Research Participants
12. Evaluation of Data Analysis Techniques
5. IV. Evaluation of the Adequacy and Utility of Theories and Conceptual Models
13. Evaluation of the Research Findings
14. Evaluation of the Utility of the Theory for Practice
15. Evaluation of the Utility and Soundness of the Conceptual Model
6. V. Integrating Research and Practice
16. Strategies for Integrating Nursing Research and Nursing Practice
7. References
8. Index