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Nursing Research: Designs and Methods

Published 17 April 2008
Hugh McKenna, Roger Watson, Seamus Cowman, John Keady
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TL;DR

This chapter discusses the process of research, research designs, data collection and analysis, and methodology of nursing research.

Abstract

Section 1 Approaches to research The Nature and Language of Nursing Research Approaches to Research Participative Approaches to Research Feminist Methodology in Nursing Research Historical Research Evaluation Research Section 2 The process of research Asking Research Questions Accessing the Nursing Research Literature Synthesising Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence within a Systematic Review The Cochrane Collaboration, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Evaluating the Literature Research Governance and Research Ethics The Research Proposal Managing a Research Project Supervising Research Students Publishing and Disseminating Research Section 3 Research designs Surveys in Nursing Research and Practice Randomised Controlled Trials Single-case Experiments Action Research Grounded Theory Nursing Research Phenomenology Ethnography The Delphi Technique Longitudinal Studies Triangulation Section 4 Data collection and analysis Interviews Focus Groups Questionnaires Observation Q Methodology in Nursing Research Narrative Research and Analysis Qualitative Data Analysis: Achieving Order out of Chaos Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Keywords

Social Sciences