Nursing Research: Methods, Critical Appraisal, and Utilization - Tapa blanda

This text is best known for its readability and comprehensive look at nursing research and has always been praised for its focus on critique and utilization of research, clear writing style, and logical organization. This new edition continues to help students quickly master techniques for reading, analyzing, critiquing, and applying nursing research in clinical practice. The new pedagogy in this fourth edition provides students with helpful research hints and critical thinking exercises. Best of all, this edition leaps into the future by providing important technological information, such as considerations when accessing research from the Internet and key Web site addresses.

Designed to help nursing students read, interpret and utilize research in practice, this work contributes to the continued development of improvements in nursing practice. It covers the nurse's role as a consumer of research, presents each step of the research process and includes separate chapters on evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. "Critiquing Criteria" boxes in each chapter provide guidelines for evaluating each step of the research process. Examples are used to illustrate the steps of the research process and to give the student practice in reading and evaluating published research. Objectives and key terms are listed at the beginning of each chapter and chapter highlights at the end of each chapter to help the reader focus on important content.