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Research • Statistic & Theory
Understanding Research for Evidence-Based Practice,
Fourth Edition
Cherie R. Rebar, PhD, RN, MBA
978-1-4511-9107-3 • October 2014 • Softbound • 7” x 10” • 384 pp. • 77Tables
Understanding Research for Evidence-Based Practice
helps develop
the knowledge and skills you need to become a research-literate,
evidence-based practitioner with this user-friendly book. Mirroring the
way practicing nurses read research reports, the book begins with a
research article’s conclusion — the section that most directly addresses
the clinical meaning of a research study — and works “backward”
through each section in the research article.
Organized around user-centered questions, such as how conclusions
were reached, which patients the conclusions apply to, and how the
study was done, each chapter begins with a clinical case that identifies
the clinical question the nurse is seeking to answer, followed by one or
two published research articles that directly relate to the clinical case.
Features
•
NEW!
Additional graphics appeal to visual learners and enhance
understanding.
•
NEW!
Comprehensive coverage of systematic reviews, mixed
methods, statistics, and evidence-based models has been added,
including the AAAAA Evidence-Based Practice Model (Duke, 2010.)
•
NEW!
Online Video Tutorials demonstrate how to work through
research studies and theories.
• Help your students see the relevance of research to clinical practice
through the authors’ unique approach that allows them learn about
research methodology in a natural, intuitive way.
• Motivate your students with Rebar & Gersch Evidence-Based Bridge
Theory — a theory that helps them understand how becoming
research literate will help their clinical practice.
• Increase your students’ understanding of difficult, abstract concepts
through additional graphics that appeal to visual learners.
• Broaden your students’ knowledge with enhanced coverage of
systematic reviews and mixed method research, including the
AAAAA Evidence-Based Practice Model.
• Help your students become savvy consumers of research with
the book’s easy-to-understand review of the basic statistical
information necessary for interpreting research studies.
• Broaden your students’ understanding with clinical cases that
reflect nursing practice in a variety of settings, from acute care to
public health and across a range of specialties.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1:
Evidence-Based Healthcare:
Using Research in Practice
Ch. 2:
The Research Process:
Components and Language of
Research Reports
Ch. 3:
Discussions and Conclusions
Ch. 4:
Descriptive Results
Ch. 5:
Inferential Results
Ch. 6:
Samples
Ch. 7:
Ethics: What Can Go Wrong?
Ch. 8:
Data Collection Methods
Ch. 9:
Research Designs: Planning
the Study
Ch. 10:
Background and the Research
Problem
Ch. 11:
The Research Process
Appendix A:
Research Articles
Appendix B:
Demographic
Characteristics as Predictors of
Nursing Students’ Choice of Type of
Clinical Practice
Appendix C:
Sample In-Class Data
Collection Tool
Appendix D:
In-Class Study Data for
Practice Exercise in Chapter 5
Glossary