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    <title>Understanding nursing research</title>
    <subTitle>building an evidence-based practice</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Grove, Susan K.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gray, Jennifer</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1955-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Saunders/Elsevier</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>5th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 574 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction to nursing research and evidence-based practice -- Introduction to the quantitative research process -- Introduction to the qualitative research process -- Examining ethics in nursing research -- Research problems, purposes, and hypotheses -- Understanding the literature review in published studies -- Understanding theory and research frameworks -- Clarifying quantitative research designs -- Examining populations and samples in research -- Clarifying measurement and data collection in quantitative research -- Understanding statistics in research -- Critical appraisal of quantitative and qualitative research for nursing practice -- Building an evidence-based nursing practice -- Introduction to outcomes research.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Nancy Burns, Susan K. Grove ; with special contributions by Jennifer Gray.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nursing</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Evidence-based nursing</topic>
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    <topic>Nursing Research</topic>
    <topic>methods</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Evidence-Based Nursing</topic>
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