Elsevier ebook Nursing and Midwifery Research 7E

It is essential that nurses and midwives are able to understand, interpret, synthesise and apply research for effective practice. Nursing and Midwifery Research is a well-established, highly regarded and comprehensive resource that covers all the key fundamentals needed to become and be an evidence-based practitioner.

This book provides an accessible and user-friendly roadmap of the entire research journey, from the conception of a research idea or question through to planning, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of findings. Readers will develop strong skills in research literacy and critical appraisal, and thus build confidence to embark on research projects of their own – an aim of developing research awareness and knowledge.

Written by research experts in their fields specifically for undergraduate and postgraduate students and clinicians in Australia and New Zealand, and fully updated in its seventh edition, this book is a perfect introduction and long-term resource to support research methods and evidence-based practice throughout their professional careers.

• Helps build students’ confidence and skills to understand, use and apply research in all healthcare settings.

• Logically sequenced from theory through to practical application – case studies and tutorials help the reader apply theory to practice.

• Easy to read and accessible for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and clinicians.

• Features the most recent Australasian healthcare research, data, clinical practice, procedures and guidelines.

• Written by Australasian academic and clinical research topic experts at the forefront of nursing and midwifery practice, it draws on the Australasian context throughout.

• Includes specific detail on evidence-based practice and Indigenous research methods.

• A variety of supporting teaching methods and pedagogy support learning across all years of the Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery curriculum, and into postgraduate curricula.

• Additional online teaching resources include PowerPoint presentations, Glossary, Research in Brief articles and questions, answer guides to Tutorial Trigger, An Unexpected Hurdle, Learning Activities and Time to Reflect activities.