This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It has been written by nurses for nurses and is research-minded, conceptually and theoretically up-to-date and student-centred. It is a comprehensive introduction to nursing research that will allow readers to build up their understanding of the research process and develop confidence in its practical application.

Text supported by examples from 'real life' research
International perspective on nursing research
Comprehensive coverage including established and innovative designs and methods

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Yes, you can access Nursing Research: Designs and Methods by Roger Watson, Hugh McKenna, Seamus Cowman, John Keady in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Nursing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Churchill Livingstone

Year

2008

ISBN

9780702033490

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Nursing

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Table of Contents
Front matter
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. The Nature and Language of Nursing Research
Chapter 2. Approaches to Research
Chapter 3. Participative Approaches to Research
Chapter 4. Feminist Research
Chapter 5. Historical Research
Chapter 6. Evaluation Research
Chapter 7. Asking Research Questions
Chapter 8. Accessing the Nursing Research Literature
Chapter 9. Synthesising Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence within a Systematic Review
Chapter 10. The Cochrane Database and Meta-analysis
Chapter 11. Evaluating the Literature
Chapter 12. Research Governance and Research Ethics
Chapter 13. The Research Proposal
Chapter 14. Managing a Research Project
Chapter 15. Supervising Research Students
Chapter 16. Publishing and Dissemination of Research
Chapter 17. Surveys
Chapter 18. Experiments
Chapter 19. Single-case Studies
Chapter 20. Action Research
Chapter 21. Grounded Theory
Chapter 22. Phenomenology
Chapter 23. Ethnography
Chapter 24. Delphi Studies
Chapter 25. Longitudinal Studies
Chapter 26. Triangulation
Chapter 27. Interviews
Chapter 28. Focus Groups
Chapter 29. Questionnaires
Chapter 30. Observation
Chapter 31. Q Methodology in Nursing Research
Chapter 32. Narrative Research and Analysis
Chapter 33. Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 34. Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 35. Inferential Statistics
Chapter 36. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Index