Understanding Nursing ResearchUsing clear and concise language, this third edition includes extensively revised content to reflect the most current literature and clinical studies. Practical and comprehensive, it explains each step in the nursing research process and helps students read, summarize, critique, and use findings in clinical practice. An introduction to interventions research has been added, information and examples on qualitative research have been expanded, and an introduction to the concept of evidence-based practice, a hot topic in the field of nursing, has been added.
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Discovering Nursing Research | 1 |
Introduction to the Quantitative Research Process | 26 |
Research Problems Purposes and Hypotheses | 68 |
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