Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice: Generating and Assesing Evidence for Nursing Practice

by Denise F . Polit (Author), Cheryl Beck (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

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  Thoroughly updated and revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Ninth Edition of a classic textbook presents state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. The ancillary Resource Manual includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a Toolkit on a CD-ROM, containing exemplary research tools (e.g., consent forms, a demographic questionnaire, statistical table templates) - all in easily-adapted Word documents.

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  Hardcover
  1994

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  This text is designed to give students the skills they need to design and implement a research investigation as well as critically evaluate published research reports. It has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in quantitative and qualitative research. This edition contains three new chapters that cover practical guidelines on research design, data collection and data analysis. It also contains expanded coverage of qualitative research with examples provided of qualitative studies. Other new topics include computer analysis of qualitative data; expanded coverage of multivariate statistics, including assistance in reading results from multiple regression; and current information on grant applications to the new National Institute of Nursing Research. New pedagogical material includes two complete actual research studies in the study guide and an expanded instructor's manual that includes critical comments on the examples used in the textbook to facilitate classroom discussion.