includes references and index

PART 1: Foundations of Nursing Research -- Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment -- Evidence-Based Nursing: Translating Research Evidence into Practice -- Key Concepts and Steps in Qualitative and Quantitative Research -- PART 2: Conceptualizing and Planning a Study to Generate Evidence for Nursing -- Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses -- Literature Reviews: Finding and Critiquing Evidence -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Ethics in Nursing Research -- Planning a Nursing Study -- PART 3: Designing and Conducting Quantitative Studies to Generate Evidence for Nursing -- Quantitative Research Design -- Rigor and Validity in Quantitative Research -- Specific Types of Quantitative Research -- Sampling in Quantitative Resesarch -- Data Collection in Quantitative Research -- Measurement and Data Quality -- Developing and Testing Self-Report Scales -- Descriptive Statistics -- Inferential Statistics -- Multivariate Statistics -- Processes of Quantitative Data Analysis and Interpretation -- PART 4: Designing and Conducting Qualitative Studies to Generate Evidence for Nursing -- Qualitative Research Design and Approaches -- Sampling in Qualitative Research -- Data Collection in Qualitative Research -- Qualitative Data Analysis -- Trustworthiness and Integrity in Qualitative Research -- PART 5: Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Studies to Generate Evidence for Nursing -- Overview of Mixed Methods Research -- Developing Complex Nursing Interventions Using Mixed Methods Research -- PART 6: Building an Evidence Base for Nursing Practice -- Systematic Reviews of Research Evidence: Meta-Analysis, Metasynthesis, and Mixed Studies Review -- Disseminating Evidence: Reporting Research Findings -- Writing Proposals to Generate Evidence

"Thoroughly updated and revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Ninth Edition of a classic textbook presents state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. The ancillary Resource Manual includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a Toolkit on a CD-ROM, containing exemplary research tools (e.g., consent forms, a demographic questionnaire, statistical table templates)--all in easily-adapted Word documents"--Provided by publisher