TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brink, Pamela J.
AU  - Wood, Marilynn J.
TI  - Basic steps in planning nursing research: from question to proposal 
SN  - 9715843921
AV  - RT 81.5 .B75 2001  
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Jone and Bartlett Learning
KW  - NURSING -- RESEARCH -- PLANNING
N1  - Includes index; How to write a researchable question -- From question to problem -- The full and final research problem -- Critical review of the literature -- Stating the purpose of the study -- Defining your terms -- The research design: blueprint for action -- Selecting the sample -- Selecting a method to answer the question -- Reliability and validity of measurement -- Ethics in nursing research -- Planning for analysis of data -- Writing the research proposal -- Appendix: sample research proposals
N2  - This book will provide the novice with an understanding of the research proposal as a problem-solving process in which the "hardest task of all is deciding on one well-defined study on one-ell defined topic."
ER  -