Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research,   ISBN:9780803957848

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Summary:

This ambitious and long-awaited volume bridges together foremost nursing scholars

and educators to review and critique the state of nursing research across topics mist

relevant to current practice. If the contributor ship appears as a veritable "who's who' nursing research, the table of contents comprises primary topics in the vanguard of nursing.

The authors begin with theoretical issues, exploring the variety of philosophical

approaches to and factors shaping nursing thought. The first section also presents a

meta-analysis of caring in nursing sciences, and examines the relationship of

research perspectives to methodology.

There follows wide-ranging discussions in community health , practice strategies,

family care, health promotion, biobehavioral investigations, women's health, gerontologic nursing, and outcome optimization. For psychological as well as

psycho social research, panoply of instruments are presented throughout, along with the most relevant theories driving the research.

Comprehensive in scope, cogent and truly thought provoking, a book such as

Handbook for Clinical Nursing Research arrives only one or twice in a career. It is a

must-have shelf reference for every nurse performing or aspiring to conduct research

and for those who would teach them.