With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.

• Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
• Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
• Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
• Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.

Unit One: Introduction to Nursing Research

1. Discovering the World of Nursing Research

2. NEW! The Evolution of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

3. Introduction to Quantitative Research

4. Introduction to Qualitative Research


Unit Two: The Research Process

5. Research Problem and Purpose

6. Review of Relevant Literature

7. Frameworks

8. Objectives, Questions, and Hypotheses

9. Ethics in Research

10. Understanding Quantitative Research Design

11. Selecting a Research Design

12. Outcomes Research

13. Intervention Research

14. Sampling

15. The Concepts of Measurement

16. Measurement Methods Used in Developing Evidence for Practice

17. Collecting and Managing Data

18. Introduction to Statistical Analysis

19. Using Statistics to Describe Variables

20. Using Statistics to Examine Relationships

21. Using Statistics to Predict

22. Using Statistics to Examine Causality

23. Qualitative Research Methodology

24. Interpreting Research Outcomes

25. Communicating Research Findings


Unit Three: Putting It All Together for Evidence-Based Health Care

26. Critical Appraisal of Nursing Studies

27. Strategies for Promoting Evidence-Based Nursing Practice


Unit Four: Proposing and Seeking Funding for Research

28. Proposal Writing for Research Approval

29. NEW FOCUS! Seeking Funding for Research


Appendices

A. NEW VERSION! Percentage Points of Student's Distribution

B. Percentage Points of the F Distribution

C. Critical Values of the ÷2 Distribution

D. Statistical Power Tables (Ä = Effect Size)


Glossary

By Nancy Burns, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; Faith Community Nurse, St. Matthew Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Burleson, TX; and Susan K. Grove, PhD, APRN, BC, ANP, GNP, Associate Dean and Graduate Advisor, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; Adult Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Grand Prairie, TX