Research for nurses : methods and interpretation

Part 1 Getting started: introduction to nursing research understanding theory deciding what to study. Part 2 Research designs and approaches: experimental and quasi-experimental designs survey designs qualitative research designs field study approaches new wave research - contemporary applied approaches. Part 3 Exploring bias and ethical issues in research: understanding bias ethical issues in nursing research. Part 4 A statistics primer: a primer for descriptive statistics a primer for inferential statistics. Part 5 Issues in data collection: data collection and measurement questionnaire development sampling and sampling size. Part 6 Data analysis: starting the data analysis testing simple causal models four multivariate techniques. Part 7 Reporting, Critiquing and using research findings in nursing: the research report the research critique research utilization in nursing. Part 8: using SPSS for Windows (version 10.0).