Burns, Nancy, Ph. D. <br/><br/>
Understanding nursing research :  building an evidence-based practice / 
Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove 
 - Fourth edition. 
 - St. Louis, Missouri :  Elsevier Saunders,  c2007 
 - xvii, 586 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Discovering nursing research -- Introduction to the quantitative research process -- Introduction to the qualitative research process -- Research problems, purposes, and hypotheses -- Review of the literature -- Understanding theory and research frameworks -- Examining ethics in nursing research -- Clarifying research designs -- Outcomes research -- Populations and samples -- Measurement and data collection in research -- Understanding statistics in research -- Critiquing research for nursing practice -- Building an evidence-based practice. 
<br/><br/> Written by two experts in the field, this is a textbook of nursing research. It also features an emphasis on the field of outcomes research, as well as quantitative and qualitative research. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416026402 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>NURSING -- RESEARCH -- PHILOSOPHY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RT 81.5 .B87 2007