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Author Macnee, Carol L. (Carol Leslie)

Title Understanding nursing research : reading and using research in practice / Carol L. Macnee
Published Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004

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Description xvi, 412 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: CHAPTER 1 Using Nursing Research in Practice 1 -- CHAPTER 2 Components and Language of Research Reports 16 -- CHAPTER 3 Discussions and Conclusions 40 -- CHAPTER 4 Descriptive Results 55 -- CHAPTER 5 Inferential Results 77 -- CHAPTER 6 Samples 101 -- CHAPTER 7 Sampling Errors and Ethics?What Can Go Wrong? 125 -- CHAPTER 8 Data Collection Methods 146 -- CHAPTER 9 Research Designs: Planning the Study 179 -- CHAPTER 10 Background and the Research Problem 211 -- CHAPTER 11 The Research Process 232 -- CHAPTER 12 The Role of Research in Nursing 253 -- Appendix A-1 : Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Children With Type I Diabetes 273 -- Appendix A-2 : Fecal Incontinence in Hospitalized Patients Who Are Acutely Ill 282 -- Appendix A-3 : Homeless Patients? Experience of Satisfaction With Care 291 -- Appendix A-4 : Evaluating the Impact of Peer, Nurse Case-Managed, and Standard HIV Risk-Reduction Programs on Psychosocial and Health- Promoting Behavioral Outcomes Among Homeless Women 299 -- Appendix A-5 : Mexican American Family Survival, Continuity, and Growth: The Parental Perspective 312 -- Appendix A-6 : Factors Associated With Participation by Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in a Tuberculosis Screening Program 322 -- Appendix A-7 : Trajectory of Certain Death at an Unknown Time: Children With Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses 333 -- Appendix A-8 : Distress and Growth Outcomes in Mothers of Medically Fragile Infants 343 -- Appendix A-9 : Exercise in Heart Failure: A Synthesis of Current Research 357 -- Appendix A-10 : Effect of Positioning on Sv-O2 in the Critically III Patient With a Low Ejection Fraction 370 -- Appendix B : Fictional Article: Demographic Characteristics as Predictors of Nursing Students? Choice of Type of Clinical Practice 379 -- Appendix C : Historical Analysis of Siderail Use in American Hospitals 384 -- Appendix D : Sample In-Class Data Collection Tool 390 -- Appendix E : In-Class Study Data for Practice Exercise in Chapter 5 392 -- Glossary 394 -- Index 406
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Nursing -- Research.
Nursing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Nursing Research.
LC no. 2003047626
ISBN 0781742714 :