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Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice
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Rating:  - Did not receive
Ordered product, never received or had any reply when contacted. Had to make alternative arrangements in order to have the book in time for the class I am taking.
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 that were addressed.
This is what I am getting a BSN for. As a diploma grad and CCRN for 25 years, I am pretty confidant at the bedside. But now that I've taken this nursing research class, and learned to interpret and evaluate what's in the literature, well, it has really empowered me.
The only thing I would suggest to purchasers of this book it to put "LoBiondo-Wood & Haber" into your autotext ASAP, because you will really get tired of typing it out!
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 reasoning - for example, 'a' causes 'b' which is caused by 'a'. Too many definitions or relationships are described in a poor manner like this.
2) Many of the tables and graphics repeat verbatim, what the reading sections say. If a different viewpoint or explanation was provided it might clarify the text, rather than just reiterating it.
3) Poor examples sited throughout the text. There are many examples used, which is nice, but many of them seem either difficult to understand or seem very distinct from the info being explained that sometimes it is hard to see the connection between the example and the reading section.
My suggestion, ask your instructors to use a different book or make sure they read it first! Our instructors seem to think this text presents info in the same way the old text they used did, and thus tests are based on info that we just don't understand. To make it worse, our class is web-based.
For the record, most of us in class are second-degree nursing students with A-averages. So, we are not flunkies complaining about this book because we are lazy or stupid. Many of us try reading the chapters 2-3 times.
Good luck!
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