Research Theory category: 339 books
by Rosalind L. Smyth, MA, MBBS
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that...
Creating a Caring Science Curriculum
An Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, this book reflects the paramount scholarship of caring science educators. The volume intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, living exemplars, and dynamic directions for the application...
by Mable Smith, BSN, MN
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
The only volume on higher education law written specifically for nursing faculty, this volume imparts the basic foundations of the legal, professional, and ethical issues that concern faculty on a daily basis. It clearly defines the legal rights of students, professors, and educational institutions...
Applying Conceptual Models of Nursing
Quality Improvement, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This practical resource for nursing students, educators, researchers, and practitioners provides content about the conceptual models of nursing that are used as organizing frameworks for nursing practice, quality improvement projects, and research. Chapters break these abstract models down into their...
Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 27, 2009
Advancing Nursing Science in Tobacco Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This volume sets the stage for understanding the evolution and importance of nursing science in the field by providing a brief historical overview of the tobacco epidemic and emerging science, describing changing trends in tobacco use, reviewing health risks of smoking and benefits of quitting, reviewing...
New State of MCDM in the 21st Century
Selected Papers of the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM development,...
Researching Critical Reflection
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way – something essential in today’s complex and changing organisations. It allows change to be managed in a way which enables individuals...
by Christine Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure...
Research for Advanced Practice Nurses, Third Edition
From Evidence to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The third edition of this award-winning text delivers a full treasury of tools graduate nursing students and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) need to translate clinical research into practice. In the current healthcare landscape, APRNs are challenged to provide patient-centered care that...
The Frontier Nurse Practitioner
A Conceptual Model for Remote-Rural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This pioneering text is the first to present a framework for remote-rural and frontier nurse practitioners (NPs), with a focus on the political and contextual forces that influence practice. This groundbreaking text distills contextual knowledge required for frontier practice, describes how it differs...
Winning at Litigation through Decision Analysis
Creating and Executing Winning Strategies in any Litigation or Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies. With explanations that progress from introductory to advanced and practice problems at the end of each chapter, this is a book the reader...
by Dr. Sandra Funk, PhD, FAAN
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
FACILITATES WRITING SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS OF SUBSTANCE, CLARITY, AND CONVICTION
With an in-depth focus on writing with substance, clarity, and conviction, this comprehensive resource takes the reader step by step through the entire process of writing and submitting a successful proposal. Written...
by G.R. Williamson, Andrew Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book is a practical and readable guide that will show you how to successfully complete a research project plan or literature review as part of your final year assessment. It guides you through all the necessary stages from start to finish, beginning with preparation and planning, using and critiquing...
Transformative Learning in Nursing
A Guide for Nurse Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Transformative Learning Theory offers a uniquely inclusive methodology across all levels of nursing education for educators and students focused on common nursing arenas and situations. This is the only book to present practical, innovative strategies for novice and experienced nurse educators to...