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• Title:Nursing research : generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice / Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck.
  
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• Author/Creator:Polit, Denise F.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Beck, Cheryl Tatano.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2008.
  

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  • Call Number: WY20.5 .P64 2008
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Nursing--Research--Methodology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Nursing Research--methods.
  
• Edition:8th ed.
  
• Description:xviii, 796 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-746) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780781794688 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Foundations of nursing research and evidence-based practice
  Ch. 1. Introduction to nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment
  Ch. 2. Translating research evidence into nursing practice : evidence-based nursing
  Ch. 3. Generating evidence : key concepts and steps in qualitative and quantitative research
  Pt. 2. Conceptualizing a study to generate evidence for nursing
  Ch. 4. Conceptualizing research problems, research questions, and hypotheses
  Ch. 5. Finding and critiquing evidence : research literature reviews
  Ch. 6. Developing a theoretical or conceptual context
  Ch. 7. Generating research evidence ethically
  Pt. 3. Designing a study to generate evidence for nursing
  Ch. 8. Planning a nursing study
  Ch. 9. Developing an approach for a qualitative study
  Ch. 10. Designing quantitative studies
  Ch. 11. Enhancing rigor in quantitative research
  Ch. 12. Undertaking research for specific purposes
  Ch. 13. Developing a sampling plan
  Pt. 4. Collecting research data
  Ch. 14. Designing and implementing a data collection plan
  Ch. 15. Collecting unstructured data
  Ch. 16. Collecting structured data
  Ch. 17. Assessing measurement quality in quantitative studies
  Ch. 18. Developing and testing self-report scales
  Pt. 5. Analyzing and interpreting research data
  Ch. 19. Analyzing qualitative data
  Ch. 20. Enhancing quality and integrity in qualitative research
  Ch. 21. Describing data through statistics
  Ch. 22. Using inferential statistics to test hypotheses
  Ch. 23. Using multivariate statistics to analyze complex relationships
  Ch. 24. Designing a quantitative analysis strategy : from data collection to interpretation
  Pt. 6. Building an evidence base for nursing practice
  Ch. 25. Integrating research evidence : meta-analysis and metasynthesis
  Ch. 26. Disseminating evidence : reporting research findings
  Ch. 27. Writing proposals to generate evidence.