Foundations in Nursing Research (6e)

For use as a primary text in undergraduate nursing research courses, and as a resource text for more advanced nursing research courses.

This engaging, learner-friendly text illuminates all steps of the nursing research process, helping students critique research and determine whether study findings are ready to apply in practice. To illustrate specific aspects of the research process, the author extensively excerpts from published studies, including research performed outside the U.S. Pedagogical features include chapter outlines, objectives, definitions of key terms, summaries, class activities, and self-tests. This Sixth Edition has been revised with up-to-date information and references throughout; more coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research; greater focus on evidence-based practice; and an all-new chapter on nursing research and health care economics.

PART I            INTRODUCTION TO NURSING RESEARCH  

1. Development of Nursing Research

2. Ethical Issues in Nursing Research

3. An Overview of Quantitative Research

4. An Overview of Qualitative Research

PART II           PRELIMINARY STEPS IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS 

5. Identifying Nursing Research Problems

6. Review of the Literature

7. Theory and Nursing Research

8. Hypotheses

PART III          RESEARCH DESIGNS  

9. Quantitative Research Designs

10. Qualitative Research Designs

PART IV         OBTAINING STUDY PARTICIPANTS AND COLLECTION OF DATA  

11. Populations and Samples

12. Measurement and Collection of Data

13. Data Collection Methods

PART V           DATA ANALYSIS  

14. Descriptive Statistics

15. Inferential Statistics.

16. Presentation and Discussion of Study Findings

PART VI         RESEARCH FINDINGS AND NURSING PRACTICE 

17. Communication and Utilization of Nursing Research

18. Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

19. Nursing Research and Health Care Economics

20. Critique of Research Reports

Appendix A. Answers to Self-tests.

Appendix B. Critique Questions for Specific Research Article

Appendix C. Sample Consent Form

Glossary

Index

• Helps nurses clearly understand the financial value of the services they offer, and communicate that value more effectively to colleagues and stakeholders 

Updated! Fully revised to reflect the latest trends, research, and techniques—including revised end-of-chapter summaries, self-test questions, Get Involved Activities, and Internet references

• Gives students an up-to-date understanding of the entire field of nursing research 

New! Includes all-new appendix on critiquing research studies—providing a reference to a recent research article in a clinical nursing journal, with specific questions to use in evaluating it

• Empowers students to objectively evaluate research studies, now and in the future.

New! Includes new discussion of online surveys

• Shows students how one of today’s most common research tools is being used, and helps them evaluate its effectiveness

Expanded! Contains more coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research—including studies performed both within the U.S. and around the world

• Gives students a broader understanding of nursing research, as well as access to important studies that U.S.-only publications miss

For use as a primary text in undergraduate nursing research courses, and as a resource text for more advanced nursing research courses.

This engaging, learner-friendly text illuminates all steps of the nursing research process, helping students critique research and determine whether study findings are ready to apply in practice. To illustrate specific aspects of the research process, the author extensively excerpts from published studies, including research performed outside the U.S. Pedagogical features include chapter outlines, objectives, definitions of key terms, summaries, class activities, and self-tests. This Sixth Edition has been revised with up-to-date information and references throughout; more coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research; greater focus on evidence-based practice; and an all-new chapter on nursing research and health care economics.

Hallmark Features

Concise, thorough, readable, and exceptionally learner-friendly–taking the fear out of research, and helping students critique studies and decide whether to use them

• Helps students become interested in research, empowering them to evaluate it — and possibly even perform it  

Excerpts from 85 nursing research studies drawn from 60 nursing journals–including recent studies conducted by nurses in the U.S. and around the world

• Helps students more clearly understand both research concepts and the entire research process 

“Get Involved” Activities–including structured simulations that challenge students to collaborate realistically with other students or colleagues

• Helps students experience the process of conducting, assessing, and utilizing nursing research 

More than 300 terms, with clear definitions–demystifying the language of research by presenting all new terms in bold, and clearly defining them on first reference

• Makes sure students immediately understand all new terminology 

Non-threatening self-tests after first 19 chapters–providing an opportunity for students to evaluate their mastery; most answers are provided at the back of the book

• Enables students to reinforce and review the material they’ve just studied  

Up-to-the-minute coverage of Web-based research techniques–including new examples of Internet megasearch engines, coverage of all four online CINAHL databases, the free Clinical Trials online database, and information on accessing OJIN

• Guides students in intelligently utilizing the growing amount of online information available to them, and in finding quality information sources that can be relied upon 

Online MyNursingKit.com resources linked to the book’s chapters–including chapter-specific modules containing online nursing research links, critical thinking activities, online games, and more

• Gives students more personal interaction to extend and deepen their knowledge