Nursing and Midwifery research
Application of evidence to health care practice
Development of research skills for nurses and midwives
This book aims to provide nurses and midwives with a sound theoretical knowledge base for understanding, critically appraising and undertaking research in all areas of health service provision. A comprehensive insight is provided into philosophies, methodologies and methods relevant to health care, using examples from both professions. This new edition is expanded, more detailed and includes a new chapter which offers a how to do' section, which nurses and midwives, beginning to engage with research for the first time, will enjoy and find useful.
Scope and contents
The book covers the main sources of research and evidence which nurses and midwives use to develop their practice. The two main headings explore qualitative and quantitative research in depth, avoiding jargon, but building in many examples to illustrate the topics. In addition, the application of other forms of evidence is addressed, as is the role of mixed methods designs. Not only does the book encourage nurses and midwives to develop their research and evidence skills, by the time the reader has completed it, they will have the knowledge and skills to conduct their own small scale research projects.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 - Understanding the language of research
Chapter 2 - Qualitative research: an overview of methods
Chapter 3 - Qualitative research: data collection and analysis
Chapter 4 - Qualitative research: quality and ethics
Chapter 5 - Quantitative research: experiments
Chapter 6 - Quantitative research: surveys
Chapter 7 - Quantitative research: data analysis
Chapter 8 - Other strategies and evidence
Chapter 9 - How to do research in the real world
References
Index
About the Authors
Professor Sue Dyson is a nurse and midwife by professional background, having worked for 10 years in professional practice. Since 1994 Sue has been in higher education, formerly as a lecturer in nurse education, and latterly as Head of Research for Nursing and Midwifery and Reader in Nurse Education at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom. She has recently been appointed Professor of Nursing at Middlesex University.
Dr Peter Norrie has a background in biological sciences and worked in acute and critical nursing for 10 years. He is currently employed as a Principal Lecturer in Nursing and Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University in Leicester. Peter has a passion for quantitative research which has led him to explore and teach aspects of evidence based practice to a range of nurses and other allied health practitioners, as well as leading a number of funded research projects.
Subject
Research Skills, Nurses, Midwives
Readership
This book is designed to be a valuable source for all undergraduate nursing and midwifery degree programmes, at both pre and post registration levels.
