Research for evidence-based practice

Abstract

Section 1: Contextual materials. Chapter 1: Introduction to nursing research for evidence based practice. Chapter 2: The research process - organising your research. Chapter 3: Choosing methodological approaches. Chapter 4: Searching the literature. Chapter 5: Ethics of nursing research. Chapter 6: Basic concepts - sampling, reliability and validity. Section 2: Qualitative approaches. Chapter 7: Issues in qualitative data collection. Chapter 8: Case studies. Chapter 9: Ethnography. Chapter 10: Phenomenology. Chapter 11: A pragmatic approach to qualitative data analysis. Chapter 12: Limitations of qualitative research. Section 3: Quantitative approaches. Chapter 13: Sampling, reliability and validity issues in data collection and analysis. Chapter 14: Cause and effect, hypothesis testing and estimation. Chapter 15: Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches. Chapter 16: The single case experiment. Chapter 17: Randomized controlled trials. Chapter 18: Non-experimental approaches. Chapter 19: Surveys. Chapter 20: The role of statistics. Section 4: Appraisal, dissemination and implementation. 21 Evidence based practice and clinical effectiveness. 22 Critical evaluation of research reports. 23 Writing a research report. 24 Getting research into practice