Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research, Revised Reprint

By James A. Fain

Book Overview

What is the evidence? How do you find it? How do you evaluate it? Put the evidence to work in your practice! Integrate today's best scientific knowledge into your clinical decision-making. Step by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803644639
• ISBN13: 9780803644632
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

common ideas to most research fields

If you have done research in most other fields of study, then much of this book's advice will be familiar and germane. Like analysing existing research efforts and identifying [or trying to at least] the hypotheses of those efforts, especially if these are not explicitly delineated. Issues of sampling methods figure prominently in the book. Here you need some understanding of elementary statistics, and ideas such as purposive sampling and sample adequacy. The book has a concise take on key statistical ideas. Enough for a qualitative understanding. But you really need a more indepth text on statistics if you are actually going to conduct research.