Essentials of nursing research : appraising evidence for nursing practice.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2014]Edition: edition 8, International edition / Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano BeckDescription: xviii, 493 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451176803 (pbk.) :
- 610.73072 23
- RT81.5 .P63 2014
- WY 20.5
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Previous edition: 2010.
Includes Internet access.
Text on inside cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment -- Fundamentals of evidence-based nursing practice -- Key concepts and steps in qualitative and quantitative research -- Reading and critiquing research articles -- Ethics in research -- Research problems, research questions, and hypotheses -- Finding and reviewing research evidence in the literature -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Quantitative research design -- Sampling and data collection in quantitative studies -- Measurement and data quality -- Statistical analysis of quantitative data -- Rigor and interpretation in quantitative research -- Qualitative designs and approaches -- Sampling and data collection in qualitative studies -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Trustworthiness and integrity in qualitative research -- Mixed methods and other special types of research -- Systematic reviews : meta-analysis and metasynthesis.
This comprehensive nursing research textbook continues the expansion of coverage on qualitative research, including important issues for specific qualitative traditions such as ground theory, phenomenology and ethnography.
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