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Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.73072
EAN: 9780323028288
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0323028284
Label: Mosby
Manufacturer: Mosby
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: October 14, 2005
Publisher: Mosby
Studio: Mosby
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Editorial Review:
This is a comprehensive but easy-to-understand nursing research textbook that is designed to introduce students to research concepts and methods, as well as teach how to evaluate research and apply scientific evidence to practice. The 6th edition now includes an increased emphasis on evidence-based practice, and teaches the reader how to analyze research by demonstrating in detail the components of research, the types of research, and how to use research information. The thread of evidence-based practice has been enhanced from cover to cover, including the addition of "Evidence-Based Practice Tips" throughout. The sixth edition now features a full-color design and illustrations.- Quantitative research and qualitative research are presented separately, in a balanced manner.
- A inviting Research Vignette opens each of the book's four Parts, introducing students to real-world practitioners of nursing research.
- Unique Helpful Hint boxes offer practical tips for avoiding common pitfalls in nursing research.
- Critiquing Guides offer essential questions to ask when critiquing aspects of a research article.
- Critical Thinking Decision Paths are flowchart-style diagrams with critical decision points that guide students through the process of decsion-making in conducting and interpreting research.
- Critical Thinking Challenges are thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter.
- Critique of a Research Study features demonstrate how to apply critiquing skills to a research study.
- Additional popular pedagogical aids include Key Terms lists, Learning Outcomes, and Key Points summaries, along with many tables, boxes, and figures.
- Appendix includes four updated full-text research articles referenced throughout the text.
- New focus on evidence-based practice.
- Three chapters focus on evidence-based practice, including the new Tools for Applying Evidence to Practice chapter (Chapter 20), which covers implementation of protocols for evidence-based practice, standards of care, care maps, and more.
- Evidence-Based Practice Tip boxes provide tips for applying research evidence to practice.
- An evidence-based practice icon highlights key evidence-based content.
- Critical Thinking Challenges include at least one question per chapter focused on evidence-based practice.
- Practice examples of evidence-based nursing are updated and expanded.
- Updated coverage of HIPAA regulations, replication, genetics, sample size, and power calculations keeps students on the cutting edge of changes in the field.
- New Example Glossary not only includes definitions of key terms and concepts but also references to in-text examples of the concepts, with page references.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Well... I liked it
I am also in the online RN-BSN program at UNM. I took the course that used this book the summer of 2007. I really liked the book. I understood more about statistics after reading the chapter in LoBiondo-Wood & Haber than after completing a semester of regular statistics. I wish I'd read that chapter first!
I feel that the book was very thorough, excellent at defining terms and really thoughtful in the way the authors work very hard to describe and differentiate the many concepts ... Read More
Rating:  - Research
This book was excellent for my class. I liked the appendices (nsg research articles) which helped to understand the different concepts related to nursing research.
Rating:  - very difficult textbook to understand
My teacher thinks this is the end-all-be-all of Nursing Research books, probably becuase her Ph.D. mentor is a contributor. I agree with other reviewers that the authors write in very circular terms and in terms that a novice at research (which this book is supposed to be for) cannot understand easily. I am normally a good student, and even if I have a bad teacher I can usually figure it out by reading the textbook but not this time. I am at a loss of where to go to figure this material out.
Rating: - Worst textbook I've ever had to use.
This is unfortunately one of the worst, if not the worst, textbook I have ever had to read. This is the first semester at University of New Mexico that we are using the book and it is very difficult to understand some basic concepts. The authors of this book seem to describe basic concepts in such a way that you almost need to be an expert in research and statistics to understand what they are saying.
Some of the very frustrating things that are presented follow:
1) lots of circular ... Read More
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