Understanding Nursing Research

CHAPTER 1 Using Nursing Research in Practice 1
CHAPTER 2 Components and Language of Research Reports 16
CHAPTER 3 Discussions and Conclusions 40
CHAPTER 4 Descriptive Results 55
CHAPTER 5 Inferential Results 77
CHAPTER 6 Samples 101
CHAPTER 7 Sampling Errors and Ethics—What Can Go Wrong? 125
CHAPTER 8 Data Collection Methods 146
CHAPTER 9 Research Designs:: Planning the Study 179
CHAPTER 10 Background and the Research Problem 211
CHAPTER 11 The Research Process 232
CHAPTER 12 The Role of Research in Nursing 253

Appendix A-1:: Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Children With Type I Diabetes 273
Appendix A-2:: Fecal Incontinence in Hospitalized Patients Who Are Acutely Ill 282
Appendix A-3:: Homeless Patients’ Experience of Satisfaction With Care 291
Appendix A-4:: Evaluating the Impact of Peer, Nurse Case-Managed, and Standard HIV Risk-Reduction Programs on Psychosocial and Health- Promoting Behavioral Outcomes Among Homeless Women 299
Appendix A-5:: Mexican American Family Survival, Continuity, and Growth:: The Parental Perspective 312
Appendix A-6:: Factors Associated With Participation by Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in a Tuberculosis Screening Program 322
Appendix A-7:: Trajectory of Certain Death at an Unknown Time:: Children With Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses 333
Appendix A-8:: Distress and Growth Outcomes in Mothers of Medically Fragile Infants 343
Appendix A-9:: Exercise in Heart Failure:: A Synthesis of Current Research 357
Appendix A-10:: Effect of Positioning on Sv-O2 in the Critically III Patient With a Low Ejection Fraction 370
Appendix B:: Fictional Article:: Demographic Characteristics as Predictors of Nursing Students’ Choice of Type of Clinical Practice 379
Appendix C:: Historical Analysis of Siderail Use in American Hospitals 384
Appendix D:: Sample In-Class Data Collection Tool 390
Appendix E:: In-Class Study Data for Practice Exercise in Chapter 5 392
Glossary 394
Index 406