Product Description: In pediatric nursing, the ability to apply previously learned concepts to new situations is critical. In today's educational climate, with reduced class time being devoted to specialty areas, it is particularly important for nursing educators to focus on key concepts, rather than attempting to cover everything within a specific topic...read more

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Product Description: Instructor's Resource CD-ROM (to accompany Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization, sixth edition.

An introduction to nursing research which aims to teach students and practising nurses how to read and interpret published nursing research, exploring and demystifying all aspects of the research process. The book shows how to implement the findings of research in clinical practice. This third edition features a new chapter on ethics in nursing research, as well as expanded coverage of qualitative analysis and integration of qualitative analysis and integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis.

This text is designed to give students the skills they need to design and implement a research investigation as well as critically evaluate published research reports. It has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in quantitative and qualitative research. This edition contains three new chapters that cover practical guidelines on research design, data collection and data analysis. It also contains expanded coverage of qualitative research with examples provided of qualitative studies. Other new topics include computer analysis of qualitative data; expanded coverage of multivariate statistics, including assistance in reading results from multiple regression; and current information on grant applications to the new National Institute of Nursing Research. New pedagogical material includes two complete actual research studies in the study guide and an expanded instructor's manual that includes critical comments on the examples used in the textbook to facilitate classroom discussion.

Product Description: A winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award, this introductory nursing research text focuses on how to read, understand, analyze, and evaluate research for utilization in clinical practice. Acclaimed for its readability, clear presentation, and balanced coverage of quantitative and qualitative nursing research, the Fifth Edition provides in-depth research utilization and utilization models in current practice...read more

Product Description: Introductory text covers the statistical methods and procedures needed to analyze research findings. Special focus is given to quantitative methods. Other features include management of data, how to "clean" data, and how to work around missing data...read more

Product Description: Here is the first book to systematically analyze the parental decision of how many children they wish to have. The authors combine a discussion of research findings with a close look at the texture and feel of family life in families with different numbers of children.