Full Description
This is the first resource to provide APRN students and practicing clinicians with a step-by-step guide to critically analyze evidence from research studies. As part of a profession that relies on best evidence, nurses need to be able to effectively assess research articles. Equipped with these skills, nurses will lead an informed practice and improve patient care.
With 14 qualitative and quantitative studies, chapters use previously published research articles to demonstrate the actual critique process. This text delves past outlining the elements of critique to teach by example, walking the reader through every part of a research article, from the title to the conclusion, and highlighting specific queries that need to be answered to craft a strong critique. The research articles in this book offer a broad range of clinical areas and diverse methodologies to highlight the fundamental differences between qualitative and quantitative studies, their underlying paradigms, and relative strengths and weaknesses. With a consistent, robust critiquing template, this content can easily be applied to countless additional research studies.
Comprises the only text to offer research critiques in nursing
Provides actual examples of critiques of published research papers by experienced nurse researchers and educators
Showcases a diverse range of research studies
Structures critiques consistently to enable replication of the process
Useful to hospitals, especially those with Magnet® certification
Contents
Contents
Contributors
Foreword Barbara Patterson, PhD, RN, ANEF
Preface
Introduction Karen Bauce and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Share Nursing Research Critique: A Model For Excellence
PART I: QUANTITATIVE STUDIES
1. Maternal and Paternal Knowledge and Perceptions Regarding Infant Pain in the NICU
Critique: Linda Cook, Anita Ayrandjian Volpe, and Karen Bauce
2. Cultural Competence and Psychological Empowerment Among Acute Care Nurses
Critique: Emerson E. Ea and Salena A. Gilles
3. Palauans Who Chew Betel Nut: Social Impact of Oral Disease
Critique: Anne Folte Fish
4. A Randomised Clinical Trial of the Effectiveness of Home-Based Health Care With Telemonitoring in Patients With COPD
Critique: Rebecca Witten Grizzle
5. Using Text Reminder to Improve Childhood Immunization Adherence in the Philippines
Critique: Margaret A. Harris and Karen Bauce
6. Nurse Caring Behaviors Following Implementation of a Relationship-Centered Care Professional Practice Model
Critique: Annette Peacock-Johnson and Patricia Keresztes
7. Impact of Health Care Information Technology on Nursing Practice
Critique: Elizabeth A. Madigan
8. Geriatric Nursing Home Falls: A Single Institution Cross-Sectional Study
Critique: Margaret McCarthy
9. Resilience and Professional Quality of Life Among Military Health Care Providers
Critique: Andrew P. Reimer
10. Evaluation of a Meditation Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Stressors Associated With Compassion Fatigue Among Nurses
Critique: Jacqueline Rhoads and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
11. Patient Safety Culture and Nurse-Reported Adverse Events in Outpatient Hemodialysis Units
Critique: Julie Schexnayder, Mary A. Dolansky, and Karen Bauce
PART II: QUALITATIVE STUDIES
12. Hypertensive Black Men's Perceptions of a Nurse Protocol for Medication Self-Administration
Critique: Deborah B. Fahs
13. Primary Care Experiences of People Who Live With Chronic Pain and Receive Opioids to Manage Pain: A Qualitative Methodology
Critique: Nadine M. Marchi
14. Older Adults' Perceptions of Using iPads for Improving Fruit and Vegetable Intake: An Exploratory Study
Critique: Joseph D. Perazzo
15. Summary and Future Directions
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Index
