TY - BOOK AU - Houser, Janet TI - Nursing research: reading, using, and creating evidence SN - 9789746520850 AV - RT 81.5 .H68 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Sudbury, Massachusetts PB - Jone and Bartlett Learning KW - NURSING -- RESEARCH -- METHODOLOGY N1 - Includes index; The importance of research as evidence in nursing -- The research process and traditions of knowing -- Ethical issues in nursing research -- Legal issues in nursing research -- Research problems, questions, and hypotheses -- The successful literature review -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Selecting an appropriate design -- The sampling strategy -- Principles of measurement -- Data collection methods -- Enhancing the validity of research -- Descriptive research questions and procedures -- Summarizing and reporting descriptive data -- Quantitative questions and procedures -- Analyzing and reporting quantitative data -- Qualitative research questions and procedures -- Analyzing and reporting qualitative data -- Communicating research findings -- Translating research into practice N2 - Internded to help students learn to rady and use research as a basis for nursing pratice, this new nursing research textbook puts research into the context of evidence-based practice, helping students gain knowledge of research concepts while learning to apply them ER -