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- ISBN-10 : 0323532055
- ISBN-13 : 978-0323532051
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Edition after edition, Burns & Grove’s Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practicehas been known as a leading textbook of nursing research for evidence-based practice (EBP). Now under the authorship of Drs. Grove and Gray, this streamlined and enhanced 7th edition gives you even sharper insights into understanding, appraising, and applying published research for evidence-based nursing practice. Known for its authoritative content, time-tested systematic approach, and unique research example format ― the new edition of this bestselling textbook includes an enhanced EBP focus, new content on the emerging trend of mixed-methods research, and a spotlight on need-to-know information to equip you to apply the latest evidence to your clinical practice.
Table of Content:
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors and Reviewers
- Dedication
- Preface
- Learning resources to accompany understanding nursing research, 7th edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Nursing Research and Its Importance in Building an Evidence-Based Practice
- What is nursing research?
- What is evidence-based practice?
- Historical development of research in nursing
- Acquiring knowledge in nursing
- Acquiring knowledge through nursing research
- Purposes of research for implementing an evidence-based nursing practice
- Understanding your role in nursing research
- Determining the best research evidence for practice
- Key Points
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Quantitative Research
- What is quantitative research?
- Problem-solving and nursing processes: basis for understanding the quantitative research process
- Identifying the steps of the quantitative research process
- Reading research reports
- Practice reading a quasi-experimental study
- Key Points
- Chapter 3: Introduction to Qualitative Research
- Identifying the steps of the qualitative research process
- Qualitative research approaches
- Sampling and recruitment
- Data collection methods
- Data management and analysis
- Rigor in qualitative research
- Key Points
- Chapter 4: Examining Ethics in Nursing Research
- Unethical research: 1930s through the 1980s
- Ethical standards for research
- Protecting human subjects
- Understanding informed consent
- Understanding institutional review
- Current issues in research ethics
- Key Points
- Chapter 5: Examining Research Problems, Purposes, and Hypotheses
- What are research problems and purposes?
- Identifying the problem and purpose in quantitative and qualitative studies
- Determining the significance of a study problem and purpose
- Examining the feasibility of a study problem and purpose
- Examining research objectives, questions, and hypotheses in research reports
- Understanding study variables and research concepts
- Key Points
- Chapter 6: Understanding and Critically Appraising the Literature Review
- Purpose of the literature review
- Sources included in a literature review
- Critically appraising literature reviews
- Reviewing the literature
- Key Points
- Chapter 7: Understanding Theory and Research Frameworks
- Understanding the elements of theory
- Levels of theoretical thinking
- Examples of critical appraisal of research frameworks
- Key Points
- Chapter 8: Clarifying Quantitative Research Designs
- Identifying quantitative research designs in nursing studies
- Understanding concepts relevant to quantitative research designs
- Examining the design validity of quantitative studies
- Descriptive designs
- Correlational designs
- Elements of designs examining causality
- Quasi-experimental designs
- Experimental designs
- Key Points
- Chapter 9: Examining Populations and Samples in Research
- Understanding the key concepts of sampling theory
- Representativeness of a sample in quantitative research
- Probability sampling methods
- Nonprobability sampling methods commonly used in quantitative research
- Sample size in quantitative studies
- Sampling in qualitative research
- Sample size in qualitative studies
- Research settings
- Key Points
- Chapter 10: Clarifying Measurement and Data Collection in Quantitative Research
- Concepts of measurement theory
- Accuracy, precision, and error of physiological measures
- Use of sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios to determine the quality of diagnostic tests
- Measurement strategies in nursing
- Data collection process
- Key Points
- Chapter 11: Understanding Statistics in Research
- Understanding theories and concepts of the statistical analysis process
- Identifying the steps of the data analysis process
- Statistics conducted to describe variables
- Determining the appropriateness of inferential statistics in studies
- Statistics conducted to examine relationships
- Statistics conducted to predict outcomes
- Statistics conducted to examine differences
- Interpreting research outcomes
- Key Points
- Chapter 12: Critical Appraisal of Quantitative and Qualitative Research for Nursing Practice
- Purpose of conducting critical appraisals of studies in nursing
- Key principles for conducting intellectual critical appraisals of quantitative and qualitative studies
- Understanding the quantitative research critical appraisal process
- Example of a critical appraisal of a quantitative study
- Understanding the qualitative research critical appraisal process
- Example of a critical appraisal of a qualitative study
- Key Points
- Chapter 13: Building an Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
- Benefits and challenges related to evidence-based nursing practice
- Developing clinical questions to search for existing research-based evidence for use in practice
- Critically appraising research syntheses: systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Critically appraising meta-syntheses
- Critically appraising mixed-methods systematic reviews
- Models to promote evidence-based practice in nursing
- Implementing evidence-based guidelines in practice
- Introduction to evidence-based practice centers
- Introduction to translational research
- Key Points
- Chapter 14: Introduction to Additional Research Methodologies in Nursing: Mixed Methods and Outcomes Research
- Mixed methods research and design
- Outcomes research
- Key Points
- Glossary
- Index