TY - BOOK AU - Polit,Denise F. AU - Beck,Cheryl Tatano TI - Nursing research: generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice SN - 9781605477084 [paperback] PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Nursing KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Nursing Research KW - methods N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 753-771) and index; Contents: Part 1 Foundations of nursing research -- Part 2 Conceptualizing and planning a study to generate evidence for nursing -- Part 3 Designing and conducting quantitative studies to generate evidence for nursing -- Part 4 Designing and conducting qualitative studies to generate evidence for nursing -- Part 5 Designing and conducting mixed methods studies to generate evidence for nursing N2 - "Thoroughly updated and revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Ninth Edition of a classic textbook presents state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. The ancillary Resource Manual includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a Toolkit on a CD-ROM, containing exemplary research tools (e.g., consent forms, a demographic questionnaire, statistical table templates)--all in easily-adapted Word documents"--Provided by publisher ER -