TY - BOOK AU - Burns, Nancy, Ph. D. AU - Grove, Susan K. TI - Understanding nursing research: building an evidence-based practice SN - 9781416026402 AV - RT 81.5 .B87 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - St. Louis, Missouri PB - Elsevier Saunders KW - NURSING -- RESEARCH -- PHILOSOPHY KW - NURSING -- RESEARCH -- PROBLLEMS, EXERCISES, ETC KW - EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING N1 - Includes index; Discovering nursing research -- Introduction to the quantitative research process -- Introduction to the qualitative research process -- Research problems, purposes, and hypotheses -- Review of the literature -- Understanding theory and research frameworks -- Examining ethics in nursing research -- Clarifying research designs -- Outcomes research -- Populations and samples -- Measurement and data collection in research -- Understanding statistics in research -- Critiquing research for nursing practice -- Building an evidence-based practice N2 - Written by two experts in the field, this is a textbook of nursing research. It also features an emphasis on the field of outcomes research, as well as quantitative and qualitative research ER -