-This second edition retains all of the successful features of the first, plus additional material
-Additional material includes how to critique research, and a chapter on European psychiatric research
-Foreword by Professor Kevin Gournay.
Table of Contents: Critiquing Nursing Research 2nd Edition
Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Background to psychiatric/mental health nursing
research and critiquing research
The growth of evidence-based practice and the importance
of critiquing research
The Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR)
and the National Journal Club
Examples of a range of approaches used to critique
nursing research
Approaches to critiquing nursing research
Burns and Grove’s (1987) critical appraisal approach to
critiquing nursing research
Morrison’s (1991) approach to critiquing nursing research
Ryan-Wenger’s (1992) guidelines for critique of a research
report
Polit and Hungler’s (1997) approach to critiquing nursing
research
Polit, Beck and Hungler’s (2001) approach to critiquing
qualitative nursing research
The development of the NPNR Journal Club approach
to critiquing nursing research
The need for a new approach to critiquing nursing research?
The NPNR Journal Club approach
The second stage of the NPNR Journal Club development:
taking shape
The third stage of the NPNR Journal Club development:
gaining confidence in the approach
The fourth stage of the NPNR Journal Club development:
critiquing with a degree of confidence
Future considerations
Using the NPNR approach to critiquing for a student
dissertation
The future of psychiatric and mental health nursing
research?
Evidence-based mental health practice in Europe
Appendix
Key points arising from the examples had we used the
NPNR Journal Club approach to critiquing research
Index