Advanced nursing students will benefit from this text's comprehensive approach to appraising, synthesizing, and generating evidence for nursing practice. The book's rich research examples are drawn from the best of the research literature and have been updated in this edition to include high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
• The opportunity to learn first-hand from leaders in the field
• Carefully selected and updated research examples drawn from the best nursing literature
• The most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods
• A chapter on the cost-driven field of outcomes research
• A chapter on intervention research, covering causal explanations for nursing interventions