Nursing research and evidence-based practice : ten steps to success

Author:

Keele, Rebecca.

Title:

Nursing research and evidence-based practice : ten steps to success / Rebecca Keele.

Format:

Book

Published:

Sudbury, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2011.

Language:

English

Description:

xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Beginning tips on surviving nursing research and evidence-based nursing practice
• The quantitative research process
• Quantitative versus qualitative research or both?
• Data analysis
• Implementing evidence-based nursing practice : an overview
• Reading and critically analyzing empirical research studies
• Now it's your turn to analyze research
• Ethics in research and evidence-based nursing practice
• Evidence-based nursing practice projects : putting it all together
• Planned change in evidence-based nursing practice.

Review:

"Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success offers a unique approach to learning about nursing research, particularly evidence-based nursing practice. It is ideal for nursing students and practicing nurses who need to understand the language and significance of research and how to translate it into evidence-based practice. This innovative text provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop evidence-based practice proposals for the real world and focuses on analyzing all forms of evidence. With chapter objectives, tables, algorithms, and real-life examples of full evidence-based nursing practice proposals, Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success is the essential "how-to" reference."--BOOK JACKET.

Medical subjects:

Nursing Research--methods. Evidence-Based Nursing. Research Design.

Subject headings:

Nursing--Research. Evidence-based nursing.

ISBN:

9780763780586 (pbk.) 0763780588 (pbk.)