Nursing research and evidence-based practice : ten steps to success / Rebecca Keele

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginning tips on surviving nursing research and evidence-based nursing practice -- The quantitative research process -- Quantitative versus qualitative research or both?. Making sense of the numbers as it relates to research and evidence-based nursing practice -- Implementing evidence-based nursing practice : an overview -- Reading and critically analyzing empirical research studies -- Now it's your turn to analyze research -- Ethics in research and evidence-based nursing practice -- Evidence based nursing practice projects : putting it all together -- Planned change in evidence-based nursing practice.

"Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success offers a unique approach to learning about nursing research, particularly evidence-based nursing practice. It is ideal for nursing students and practicing nurses who need to understand the language and significance of research and how to translate it into evidence-based practice. This innovative text provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop evidence-based practice proposals for the real world and focuses on analyzing all forms of evidence. With chapter objectives, tables, algorithms, and real-life examples of full evidence-based nursing practice proposals, Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success is the essential "how-to" reference."--Jacket.