Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research

Discover how to integrate scientific findings into clinical decision-making with step-by-step guidance on evaluating and applying nursing research. Dive into evidence-based practice, qualitative and mixed methods, and clinical judgment using practical checklists and tools that empower best practices and improve patient outcomes. What is the evidence? How do you find it? How do you evaluate it? Put the evidence to work in practice! Integrate today’s best scientific knowledge into students’ clinical decision-making. Step by step, they’ll learn to effectively evaluate and apply nursing research and to understand its potential impact on the quality of their patient care. Five Stars! Easy to read. “Great book, easy to read, very good review of research for beginners, lots of information but goes over a lot, definitely a keeper!”—Online Reviewer Five Stars!! Good Textbook. “Reading this for my NUR 261 Research course. Gets to the point in terms of content and is relatively easy to read.”—Samuel, Online Reviewer Five Stars!! Very useful. “Love it.”—Online Reviewer New! Increased coverage of evidence-based practice in each chapter New! Focus on recognizing the cues of the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model and preparing for the Next Gen NCLEX® New! Rapid “Critical Appraisal Checklists” in the chapter on evidence-based practice New! Emphasis on qualitative research designs New! Examples of the PICOT model throughout the text Updated! Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE 2.0) guidelines Expanded! Content on qualitative and mixed-methods research designs Discusses the importance of nursing research as the foundation for best practices (evidence-based nursing) and the different types of nursing scholarship, including research, quality improvement, and evidence-based initiatives. Covers all the steps of the research process, addressing inductive and deductive reasoning and forming research questions and hypotheses from a conceptual model or theoretical framework. Addresses how to select a quantitative or qualitative design based on the research question as well as the principles of each type of design and its sampling, data collection, issues of measurement, and data analyses. Introduces strategies for evaluating and critiquing research reports along with guidelines for using research findings. Provides easy-to-follow guidelines for reading and critically appraising aspects of the research process in a published study. Offers tools to make learning easier, including “Learning Objectives,” “Glossaries of Key Terms,” “Excerpts from Existing Research Report,” “Critiquing Aspects of a Research Report,” “Web Links,” “Summary of Key Ideas,” and “Learning Activities”.

Here's a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand approach to nursing research and its impact on the quality of patient care. It provides all of the information necessary for students to understand the components of the research process and to integrate scientific knowledge into their practice to make informed judgments and valid clinical decisions. Each step of the research process is examined in step-by-step detail. The book covers all of the steps of the research process for specific disciplines; develops the skills to evaluate problem and purpose statements critically and analyze the parts of a study to determine the validity of the findings; discusses the specific statistical procedures used to answer various research questions and/or hypotheses; and, examines randomized clinical trials as a methodological 'gold standard' and explains why other types of design are so often necessary in nursing research.