Description
Using Research in Healthcare Practice provides a comprehensive overview of the core topics required for an understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research. The primary focus is on encouraging students to understand the value of seeking out studies when they need to explore practice concerns or dilemmas. Unnecessary detail on 'how to' practice research is avoided, reflecting the level of detail required for undergraduate students to understand and utilize research.
The text's health profession focus recognizes that the work of healthcare practice demands a rich, informed and complex knowledge base that is drawn on and added to by all the professional and consumer groups involved. When the focus shifts from 'discipline' to 'patient', research based understandings are more holistically patient and community centered, the central aim common to all professional healthcare practice.
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Features
--Focuses on 'using' rather than 'doing' research by showing students how to:
-- Formulate a searchable clinical question
-- Search for evidence using electronic databases and follow up with manual searches
-- Critically appraise quantitative and qualitative research reports and literature reviews
-- Develop techniques for the implementation of evidence-based practice
--Integrates and gives equal emphasis to quantitative and qualitative research
--Australian, New Zealand and international research examples are integrated throughout.
--Key Features:
-- Learning Outcomes in Every Chapter
-- Activity Boxes
-- Critical Thinking Questions
-- References at the End of Each Chapter
-- Box Examples
-- Tables
-- Charts
About the Author(s)
- Sue Nagy RN, PhD, FCN
- Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Jane Mills RN, PhD
- NHMRC Primary Health Care Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University
- Donna Waters RN, PhD, BA, MPH, FCN
- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Melanie Birks RN, PhD, BN, MEd
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Melbourne, Australia
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9781920994020
- Trim Size: 7 x 9
- Pages: 263
- Pub Date: Dec 9, 2009
- Weight: 1.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Section I: RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
Chapter 1: Understanding the Importance of Research
Chapter 2: Research Traditions
Chapter 3: Trends in Health Research
Chapter 4: Ethics and Legal Considerations
Section II: UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
Chapter 5: Searching for Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions
Chapter 6: Understanding Sampling
Chapter 7: Data Generation and Collection Procedures
Chapter 8: Data Analysis
Section III: BASING PRACTICE ON EVIDENCE
Chapter 9: Determining the Quality of Research Findings
Chapter 10: Bringing Evidence to the Point of Care
Chapter 11: Using Evidence at the Point of Care
Appendix: Additional Activities and Resources
