The practice of nursing research : conduct, critique, and utilization

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"Practicing nurses, students, and instructors appreciate this book for its clear, direct writing style that makes complex concepts easy to understand; unique nursing perspective and framework that link nursing research to nursing practice; balanced and detailed coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research; and abundant, concrete examples from the best research literature."--Jacket Contents: 1. Discovering the world of nursing research 2. The evolution of research in nursing 3. Introduction to quantitative research 4. Introduction to qualitative research 5. Research problem and purpose 6. Review of relevant literature 7. Frameworks 8. Objectives, questions, and hypotheses 9. Ethics in research 10. Understanding quantitative research design 11. Selecting a research design 12. Outcomes research 13. Intervention research 14. Sampling 15. The concepts of measurement 16. Measurement strategies in nursing 17. Collecting and managing data 18. Introduction to statistical analysis 19. Using statistics to describe variables 20. Using statistics to examine relationships 21. Using statistics to predict 22. Using statistics to examine causality 23. Qualitative research methodology 24. Interpreting research outcomes 25. Communicating research findings 26. Critical analysis of nursing studies 27. Using research knowledge to promote an evidence-based practice in nursing 28. Proposal writing for research approval 29. Seeking funding for research App. A. Table of random numbers App. B. Cumulative normal distribution (Z) App. C. Percentage points of student's t distribution App. D. Percentage points of the F distribution App. E. Critical values for the [chi][superscript 2] distribution App. F. Table of probabilities associated with values as small as observed values of U in the Mann-Whitney test App. G. Table of critical values of U in the Mann-Whitney test App. H. Percentiles of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic App. I. Table of critical values of r in the runs test App. J. Critical values for the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test (N=5[1]50) App. K. Table of probabilities associated with values as large as observed values of H in the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks App. L. Table of probabilities associated with values as large as observed values of [Chi][superscript 2]in the Friedman two-way analysis of variance by ranks App. M. Statistical power tables ([Delta]=effect size)

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