What is the evidence? How do you find it? How do you evaluate it? Put the evidence to work in your practice! Integrate today’s best scientific knowledge into your clinical decision-making. Step by step, you’ll learn to effectively evaluate and apply nursing research and to understand its potential impact on the quality of your patient care.

This new combination text and workbook offers a comprehensive approach to evaluating and applying nursing research. It introduces the student to the process and explains why nursing research is important to the profession. The text covers the 11 steps of the research process to show what is being done and why it is important in the process. It will enable the student to critically review published research and apply useful research findings to his/her practice.

This textbook explicitly links understanding of nursing research with evidence-based practice, and focuses on how to read, critique, and utilize research reports. Organized around questions students have when reading reports—how the conclusions were reached, what types of patients the conclusions apply to, how the study was done, and why it was done that way—the text explains the steps of the research process to answer these questions. Chapters include clinical vignettes, highlighted key concepts, and out-of-class exercises. Appendices present a variety of research examples. This edition includes significant new material on evidence-based practice and more distinction between qualitative and quantitative research.

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Evidence, Fourth Edition is an essential text for nursing students to build the skills necessary for translating research into evidence. The Fourth Edition focuses on the Nursing Practice Guidelines and emphasizes evidence-based practice in the profession of nursing. To reinforce these concepts the author cites a particular article that is appraised throughout the entire text. The Fourth Edition also focuses on the dissemination of information and research best practices as conferences and other such resources become more available to students and professionals. Key Features • Emphasis on Nursing Practice Guidelines • New evaluation tool for reviewing a research article • Extensive PICO questions throughout the text • Addition of the contemporary PECO question • Poster template added to the chapter on translation

"This textbook explicitly links understanding of nursing research with evidence-based practice, and focuses on how to read, critique, and utilize research reports. Organized around questions students have when reading reports--how the conclusions were reached, what types of patients the conclusions apply to, how the study was done, and why it was done that way--the text explains the steps of the research process to answer these questions"--Provided by publisher.

"The Fifth edition is based on the idea that the ability to read, critique, and participate in nursing research is essential to create and use evidence for nursing practice. The book is aimed specifically at undergraduate nursing students, nurses returning to school, and practicing nurses that must apply evidence to practice at the bedside. All nur