Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice, 4th Edition is a market-leading textbook written by two of the most renowned experts in the nursing research field. Now in full-color, this thoroughly updated 4th edition reflects today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. Refined format and features enhance the book's readability and bring include examples and critiques that help students better understand the concepts. The book also features an enhanced emphasis on the emerging, cost-driven field of outcomes research, as well as an improved balance of quantitative and qualitative research. In addition to a full complement of student and faculty ancillaries, a companion Nursing Research Online course is now available for separate purchase with this edition.

• Written by two of the leaders in the field of nursing research, the book presents time-tested content with ideal breadth, depth, and readability for students.
• Research Examples throughout the text illustrate key concepts with excerpts from the best of the nursing and health sciences literature.
• Critiquing Guidelines provide a systematic tool for critiquing published research studies.
• Example Critiques demonstrate how to critique an article with excerpts from published studies.
• A full Sample Critique of an entire quantitative study helps students synthesize the critiquing skills they have developed through the preceding chapters.
• A comprehensive Glossary serves as a convenient quick reference.

• Includes a fresh emphasis on the role of nursing research in building an evidence-based practice, with in-depth Research Examples now concluding with Implications for Practice.
• A new Outcomes Research chapter addresses this emerging, cost-driven discipline.
• Redesigned Critiquing Guidelines offer expert advice on evaluating research articles.
• New Sample Critique of a qualitative study complements the quantitative critique.
• Tips for Further Study identifies concepts in each chapter students tend to have the most trouble with and points them to corresponding sections in the Study Guide and the Evolve resources for further study.

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With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.

• Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
• Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
• Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
• Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.

• Enhanced emphasis on research appraisal and synthesis for evidence-based practice equips students not just to generate research evidence but also to appraise and synthesize existing evidence for application to practice.
• Carefully edited for a more student-friendly readability and active-voice writing style reduces barriers to learning the typically challenging research content.
• In order to focus the text on the more "need to know" content most important for the majority of students, more in-depth content on conceptual models for those planning to lead research studies has been moved from the book to the companion EVOLVE website.
• Fresh, new, full-color design provides a more "open" look that facilitates learning with Key Terms highlighted in color and color tabs for the Index and Glossary.
• Research examples have been updated throughout to reflect the most current research from the published literature, including excellent examples of qualitative studies.
• The coverage of qualitative research has been carefully revised to highlight examples of high-quality qualitative research and to present both qualitative and quantitative approaches as equally valuable.
• EVOLVE website provides examples of both qualitative and quantitative research proposals.
• Now focuses on the "how to's" of seeking research funding and provides a practical tool to help new researchers move from research proposal to funded research project.
• UNIQUE! Authoritative coverage provides students the opportunity to learn first-hand from the leaders in the field.
• UNIQUE! Separate chapter on the cost-driven field of outcomes research helps nurses to demonstrate that what they do results in positive healthcare outcomes.
• UNIQUE! Provides a separate chapter on the emerging field of intervention research, which establishes "causal explanations" for nursing interventions in response to the growing difficulty of performing true experimental research on human participants.

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