Library and Academic Services: Evidence-Based, Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Nursing Research Resources

Library Resources

Encyclopedia of Nursing Research by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick; Meredith Wallace Kazer
Publication Date: 2011

The award-winning Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field. ...
Nursing Research: a qualitative perspective by Patricia L. Munhall
Location: RT 81.5 .N866 2007 (NDC)

Designed for nursing research students and nurses conducting qualitative studies, this text exemplifies qualitative methods with case studies, ethnography, and phenomenology.
Nursing Research: reading, using, and creating evidence by Janet Houser
Location: RT 81.5 .H72 2008 (NDC)

Nursing Research fills the need for a research text that addresses both traditional content as well as focusing on nursing research as it is used in evidence-based practice, in systematic reviews, and in the development of clinical practice guidelines....
A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences (OER)
Location: OER

Publication Date: 2020

This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences, covering subjects such as education, sociology, business, nursing...
The Research Imagination: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods by Paul S. Gray; David A. Karp; John B. Williamson; John R. Dalphin
Publication Date: 2007

The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology...
Research in Nursing and Health by Carol Noll Hoskins; Carla Mariano (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004

This book offers the reader a synopsis of research, appreciating both the science and art of inquiry. It is designed to present the basic elements of conducting and understanding nursing research...
Understanding Nursing Research by Nancy Burns; Susan K. Grove
Location: RT 81.5 .B863 2003 (NDC)

Using clear and concise language, this third edition includes extensively revised content to reflect the most current literature and clinical studies. Practical and comprehensive, it explains each step in the nursing research process...
Finding Evidence-based Information for Health Sciences Students by Anabella Arcaya; Graham Lavender; and Christine St. Denis
Location: OER

This series of information literacy modules will help post-secondary students in the health sciences (especially Nursing) find and use reliable information for class assignments...

Articles of interest

Flemming, K. (2010). Synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research: an example using Critical Interpretive Synthesis: Synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(1), 201–217.
This paper is a report of a Critical Interpretive Synthesis to synthesize quantitative research, in the form of an effectiveness review and a guideline, with qualitative research to examine the use of morphine to treat cancer-related pain.
Rutberg, S. & Bouikidis, C. D. (2018). Focusing on the Fundamentals: A Simplistic Differentiation Between Qualitative and Quantitative Research. Nephrology Nursing Journal : Journal of the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, 45(2), 209–213.
This article describes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research

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. Various classifications of each research design, including specific categories within each research method, are explored. Attributes and differentiating characteristics, such as formulating research questions and identifying a research problem, are examined, and various research method designs and reasons to select one method over another for a research project are discussed.

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