Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice

<p>Designed to reinforce your understanding through hands-on work with high-quality published studies, the <b>Study Guide for Understanding Nursing Research, 7th Edition,</b> provides both time-tested and innovative exercises for each chapter in the Grove & Gray textbook. This new edition includes an expanded focus on evidence-based practice, with each chapter featuring <i>Terms and Definitions, Linking Ideas, Web-Based Activities</i>, and <i>Conducting Critical Appraisals to Build an Evidence-Based Practice</i>. The Study Guide is built around three high-quality published research studies located in the appendices and referenced throughout the book. These full-text articles, selected for particular relevance to you, will help you better understand the research and evidence-based practice processes and help you learn to appraise and apply research findings to clinical settings.</p><ul><b><li>Time-tested and innovative exercises</b> include brief<i> Introductions</i>, <i>Key Terms</i> exercises, <i>Key Ideas</i> exercises, <i>Making Connections</i> exercises, <i>Exercises in Critical Appraisal</i>, and <i>Going Beyond</i> exercises to promote in-depth learning for a variety of learning styles.</li><li><b>Answer key </b>allows you to check your understanding and learn from your mistakes (formative assessment).</li><li><b>Quick-reference printed tabs</b> have been added to differentiate the answer key and each of the book's three published studies appendices (four tabs total) for improved navigation and usability.</li><li><b>Learning activities for each textbook chapter </b>reinforce key concepts and guide you in application to evidence-based clinical practice.</li></ul><ul><li><b>NEW! Increased emphasis on evidence-based practice </b>corresponding to the EBP emphasis in the text to help you see the value of understanding the research process and apply it to evidence-based nursing practice.</li><li><b>NEW! Hands-on practice with three current, high-quality published studies </b>to help you better understand the research and evidence-based practice processes and help you learn to appraise and apply research findings to clinical settings.</li><li><b>NEW! Enhanced <i>key terms</i> activities </b>compensate for the deletion of the <i>key terms</i> lists from the textbook that are now addressed in Study Guide activities.</li><li><b>NEW! New <i>Appraisal Guidelines</i> </b>help you to critically appraise research articles.</li><li><b>NEW! </b><b>Updated full-text articles </b>ensure that the examples provided reflect the most current, high-quality studies that are meaningful.</li></ul>