Essentials of nursing research : appraising evidence for nursing practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Polit, Denise F.
Other Authors: Beck, Cheryl Tatano
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health /Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2014]
Edition:Eighth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment
  • Fundamentals of evidence-based nursing practice
  • Key concepts and steps in qualitative and quantitative research
  • Reading and critiquing research articles
  • Ethics in research
  • Research problems, research questions, and hypotheses
  • Finding and reviewing research evidence in the literature
  • Theoretical and conceptual frameworks
  • Quantitative research design
  • Sampling and data collection in quantitative studies
  • Measurement and data quality
  • Statistical analysis of quantitative data
  • Rigor and interpretation in quantitative research
  • Qualitative designs and approaches
  • Sampling and data collection in qualitative studies
  • Analysis of qualitative data
  • Trustworthiness and integrity in qualitative research
  • Mixed methods and other special types of research
  • Systematic reviews : meta-analysis and metasynthesis
  • Glossary
  • Appendices
  • Glossary of selected statistical symbols.