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Recommended Books
The following is a sample from the library catalog.
Designing Qualitative Research by Call Number: 300.72 M3555d5ISBN: 141297044XPublication Date:This popular text provides useful and pragmatic guidance for developing and successfully defending proposals for qualitative inquiry.
Foundations of Nursing Research by Call Number: 610.73072 N557f5ISBN: 0136129803Publication Date:Foundations of Nursing Research illuminates all steps of the nursing research process, helping readers understand the importance of research to evidence-based nursing practice, evaluate and critique research, and determine whether study findings are ready to apply in practice.
Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452261881Publication Date:This ambitious and long-awaited volume brings together foremost nursing scholars and educators to review and critique the state of nursing research across topics most relevant to current practice.
Notter’s Essentials of Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826116079Publication Date:This classic text provides a contemporary explanation of basic knowledge and skills that form the foundation of nursing research in clinical practice.
Quantitative Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452250588Publication Date:This major textbook guides the reader through the basic definitions, fundamentals of design, and techniques of quantitative research.
Resources for Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781847877369Publication Date:The 4th edition of this extensive text is an outstanding resource prepared by nurses (and a librarian) for nurses.
