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Understanding Nursing and Healthcare Research

by Patricia Cronin, Michael Coughlan and Valerie Smith

Student Resources

  1. What is research?
  2. The research process at a glance
  3. What are research problems, questions, hypotheses, aims and objectives?
  4. Searching and reviewing the literature
  5. Getting to grips with approaches to research designs
  6. Understanding sampling and sampling size
  7. Ethical and legal issues in research
  8. Rigour in research
  9. Data collection in research
  10. Gaining insight into data analysis
  11. How is research disseminated and implemented?
  12. Critically evaluating research studies
  • Flashcard Glossary
  • Critical Appraisal Tool

What is research?

Quiz

MCQ's for Chapter 1

Useful Web Links

www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php

www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

Journal Articles

Estabrooks, C.A. (1999b) Modelling the individual determinants of research utilization. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 21(6): 758–72

 

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