Learn how to better understand, critically appraise, and apply research to your everyday practice with LoBiondo-Wood and Haber's Nursing Research in Canada: Methods, Critical Appraisal, and Utilization, 6th Edition. Written by educators and research experts from across Canada, this thoroughly updated textbook is an ideal resource to help you learn the processes behind nursing research and evidence-informed practice. This edition features new research examples that reflect current high-quality Canadian studies, fresh vignettes that depict the work of Canadian nurse-researchers, enhanced readability, and well-balanced coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research methods for evidence-informed practice.
- Balanced but distinct coverage of both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to nursing research acquaints you with the processes behind research and evidence-informed practice.
- Sample research critiques demonstrate how to apply judgement and reasoning principles to published quantitative and qualitative research studies.
- Research Vignettes introduce you to real-world practitioners of nursing research and help bridge the gaps among clinical research, academia, and clinical practice. Vignettes cover timely topics facing Canadian nurses.
- Learning aids in every chapter include Key Terms, Learning Outcomes, Research Hints, Evidence-Informed Practice Tips, Appraising the Evidence, Critiquing Criteria, Critique of a Research Study, Critical Thinking Decision Paths, Critical Thinking Challenges, Check Your Understanding questions, and Key Points.
- NEW! Thoroughly updated research examples reflect the latest applicable high-quality literature, with an emphasis on Canadian-authored studies
- NEW! Coverage of qualitative research is expanded and enhanced
- NEW! All-new Research Vignettes include topics such as using big data, improving health outcomes and culturally safe care for Indigenous families, addressing social and health inequities with qualitative research, understanding culture through nursing research, gender-affirming care, and stories and storytelling in nursing research
- NEW! Updated references appear throughout the book
- NEW! All-new research articles in appendices address topics such as reducing intimate partner violence in rural and northern regions, Black African newcomer women’s perception of postpartum mental health services in Canada, and tapering opioid prescription programs for high-risk trauma patients
- NEW! Overview of Mixed Methods Research appendix provides foundational content for mixed methods research
Table of Contents
PART ONE Research Overview1. The Role of Research in Nursing
2. Theoretical Frameworks
3. Critical Appraisal Strategies: Reading Research
4. Developing Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Clinical Questions
5. Searching and Appraising the Literature
6. Legal and Ethical Issues
PART TWO Indigenous Peoples: Research, Knowledges, and Ways of Knowing
7. Indigenous Peoples: Research, Knowledges, and Ways of Knowing
PART THREE Qualitative Research
8. Introduction to Qualitative Research
9. Qualitative Approaches to Research
PART FOUR Quantitative Research
10. Introduction to Quantitative Research
11. Experimental and Quasiexperimental Designs
12. Nonexperimental Designs
PART FIVE Processes Related to Research
13. Sampling
14. Data Collection Methods
15. Rigour in Research
16. Qualitative Data Analysis
17. Quantitative Data Analysis
18. Presenting the Findings
PART SIX Critiquing Research
19. Critiquing Qualitative Research
20. Critiquing Quantitative Research
PART SEVEN Application of Research: Evidence-Informed Practice
21. Developing an Evidence-Informed Practice
