F.A. Davis Company

AJN Book of the Year 2009

Integrate today’s best scientific knowledge into your clinical decision-making. Here’s the information you need to know to evaluate and apply nursing research and to understand its potential impact on the quality of your patient care.

• Covers all of the steps of the research process for specific disciplines.
• Develops the skills to evaluate problem and purpose statements critically and analyze the parts of a study to determine the validity of the findings.
• Discusses the specific statistical procedures used to answer various research questions and/or hypotheses.
• Examines randomized clinical trials as a methodological ‘gold standard’ and explains why other types of design are so often necessary in nursing research.

I. Nature of Research and the Research Process

1. Introduction to Nursing Research

2. Understanding the Research Process and Ethical Issues in Nursing Research

II. Planning a Research Study

3. Selecting and Defining a Problem

4. Applying Appropriate Theories and Conceptual Models

5. Formulating Hypotheses and Research Questions

6. Selecting the Sample and Setting

7. Principles of Measurement

8. Data Collection Methods

9. Analyzing Data

10. Selecting a Quantitative Research Design

11. Selecting a Qualitative Research Design

III. Utilization of Nursing Research

12. Interpreting and Reporting Research Findings

13. Critiquing Research Reports

14. Understanding Evidence-Based Practice

• A new, interactive workbook on CD-ROM with learning activities and tools that help students to apply what they are learning. (Read on for more details.)
• An increased emphasis on evidence-based practice and its importance in making patient care decisions, including discussions of what evidence is, how to find it, and how to evaluate whether it is strong or weak.
• Expanded coverage of epidemiology and biostatistics.
• One easy-to-understand chapter on qualitative research.