Nursing research : methods, critical appraisal and utilisation /
Zevia Schneider [and others].
- 2nd Australasian edition.
- xiii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"This second edition has moved substantially from the content and structure of the first Australasian edition, itself an adaptation of the fourth edition of the United States text"--Acknowledgments. Previous ed.: Artarmon, N.S.W. : Mosby Publishers, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-478) and index.
Section I. Research and Practice: 1. Research and professional practice; 2. Approaches to research; 3. Searching literature sources; 4. Strategies for conducting a critical review; 5. Reading review papers; 6. Evidence-based nursing; 7. Implementing research into practice; 8. Developing a research proposal -- Section II. Qualitative Research Methods: 9. Approaches in qualitative research; 10. Historical methods; 11. Grounded theory; 12. Ethnography; 13. Phenomenology; 14. Feminist and critical approaches; 15. Action research; 16. Collaborative evaluation research -- Section III. Quantitative Research Methods: 17. Approaches in quantitative research; 18. Quantitative data collection; 19. Observational designs and methods; 20. Interventional designs and methods; 21. Assessing instrument psychometrics; 22. Descriptive data analysis; 23. Inferential data analysis -- Appendix A. Women recovering from first-time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study / Debra Jackson, et al -- Appendix B. Enabling care: working through obscurity and uncertainty: a basic social process used in selected acute care settings / Bev O'Connell -- Appendix C. Health status, perceptions of coping, and social support immediately after discharge of survivors of acute myocardial infarction / John Daly, et al -- Appendix D. Randomised controlled trial of midwife led debriefing to reduce maternal depression after operative childbirth / Rhonda Small, et al -- Glossary.