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This text explores the theory, rationale, and literature behind nursing research, viewing the research proposal as a problem-solving process and focusing on the beginning phase of research, the research plan. It shows how to write a researchable question, develop a research problem, use and critique published research, and write a research proposal. A section of six sample research proposals totals more than 100 pages. Material is written in terms that undergraduate and graduate students in introductory research courses can understand. This fifth edition is rewritten to emphasize the fact that the way researchers think about the research process determines the research process.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
Basic Steps in Planning Nursing Research is written as an introduction to the research process and deals solely with the beginning phase of research--the research plan, from question to proposal. It treats the planning process as an art, and contends that research is only as good as its plan, as a well-conceived plan is of immeasurable assistance throughout the rest of the research process.

Book Info
Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Brandon/Hill Nursing List first-purchase selection (#233). Guide to writing a nursing research proposal, exploring the theory, rationale, and literature involved in nursing research. Includes information on critiquing the recent work of others. Previous edition: c1998. Softcover. DNLM: Nursing Research--methods--Nurses' Instruction.

ANNOTATION

How to write a researchable question/the full & final research problem/defining terms.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Basic Steps in Planning Nursing Research is written as an introduction to the research process and deals solely with the beginning phase of research--the research plan, from question to proposal. It treats the planning process as an art, and contends that research is only as good as its plan, as a well-conceived plan is of immeasurable assistance throughout the rest of the research process.

SYNOPSIS

This text explores the theory, rationale, and literature behind nursing research, viewing the research proposal as a problem-solving process and focusing on the beginning phase of research, the research plan. It shows how to write a researchable question, develop a research problem, use and critique published research, and write a research proposal. A section of six sample research proposals totals more than 100 pages. Material is written in terms that undergraduate and graduate students in introductory research courses can understand. This fifth edition is rewritten to emphasize the fact that the way researchers think about the research process determines the research process.