Nursing and Midwifery Research - E-Book VBK, 7th Edition

• Helps build students’ confidence and skills to understand, use and apply research in all healthcare settings.

• Logically sequenced from theory through to practical application – case studies and tutorials help the reader apply theory to practice.

• Easy to read and accessible for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and clinicians.

• Features the most recent Australasian healthcare research, data, clinical practice, procedures and guidelines.

• Written by Australasian academic and clinical research topic experts at the forefront of nursing and midwifery practice, it draws on the Australasian context throughout.

• Includes specific detail on evidence-based practice and Indigenous research methods.

• A variety of supporting teaching methods and pedagogy support learning across all years of the Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery curriculum, and into postgraduate curricula.

• Additional online teaching resources include PowerPoint presentations, Glossary, Research in Brief articles and questions, answer guides to Tutorial Trigger, An Unexpected Hurdle, Learning Activities and Time to Reflect activities.
  

New to this edition

• Fully updated with the latest data, research studies and developments.

• Fully updated chapters on writing research proposals and grant applications, and evidence-based practice.

• Inclusion of a latest research project journey from conception to completion, providing readers with tangible experience of the research process through the entire process.
  

Instructor resources on Evolve:

• Answer guides to Tutorial Trigger

• PowerPoint presentations

Student and Instructor resources on Evolve:

• Answer guides to An Unexpected Hurdle

• Answers to Learning Activities

• Research in Brief articles and questions

• Answer guides to Time to Reflect

• Glossary

Section 1: What you need to know about research to appreciate it and get started
1 The Significance of Nursing and Midwifery Research and Evidence-Based Practice
2 An overview of Research Theory, Process and Design
3 Critically Searching and Reviewing the Research Literature
4 Identifying Research Ideas, Questions, Statements and Hypotheses
Section 2: What you need to know about research to understand how it is applied
5 Common Qualitative Methods
6 Data Collection and Sampling in Qualitative Research
7 Analysing Data in Qualitative Research
8 Common Quantitative Methods
9 Data Collection and Sampling in Quantitative Research
10 Assessing Measuring Instruments
11 Analysing Data in Quantitative Research
12 Mixed-Methods Research
13 Ethical and Legal Issues in Research
14 Indigenous Peoples and Research
15 Applying Research Knowledge: Implementing Evidence into Practice and Policy
Section 3: What you need to know about research if you want to conduct research
16 Writing Research Proposals and Grant Applications
17 Managing a Research Project : Roles and Processes
18 Writing and Presenting Research Findings
19 A Research Project Journey : From Conception to Completion

Dean Whitehead, PhD, MSc/MPH, BEd, FCNA (NZ), Senior Lecturer, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University, Victoria, Australia and Daniel Terry, PhD, MIntlHlth, MBA, Grad Cert UniTeach, BN, RN, University of Southern Queensland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia