Issues, Trends & Roles

• Solid breadth and depth of content covers both policy and politics.
• Contributors include many leading nurse experts in policy and politics.
• A diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and levels of content to appeal to many nursing audiences.
• Policy Spotlights provide key information on specific policy issues such as complementary therapies, reimbursement, social security, childcare and Medicare issues and options.

• Updated Policy Spotlights focus on policy issues such as Stem Cell Research, Medical Marijuana, Genetics, and Intimate Partner Violence.
• Updated Vignettes detail personal experiences, opportunities, and challenges facing a nurse in this career path.
• New Taking Action sections highlight a policy issue or political strategy and provide nurses with examples of how they can take action.
• Evidence-Based Practice (research) and its impact on health care policy and politics is integrated where appropriate.
• New Web Resource boxes include recommended website addresses for students to obtain additional information.

• Chapter features identify the most important concepts in each chapter and help you study more efficiently.
• Website references in every chapter direct you to online resources for additional learning.
• Critical Thinking Questions challenge your understanding and help you perfect your analytical skills.

• A NEW chapter on Budgeting Basics for Nurses prepares you for participation in the budgeting process, an increasingly common responsibility for nurses in the clinical setting.
• An expanded Workplace Advocacy chapter familiarizes you with the benefits and challenges of collective bargaining.
• New content helps you clearly identify compassion fatigue and presents strategies for prevention.
• Expanded coverage of nursing educational programs identifies new opportunities available to you for career growth and development.
• An updated chapter on the NCLEX-RN"¥ examination incorporates the 2007 NCLEX test plans to help you master the exam and become licensed.
• Increased emphasis on the uninsured population highlights changes to the U.S. healthcare delivery system affecting your responsibilities in professional nursing.
• Revised chapter organization makes content easier to grasp.
• Expanded Evolve resources reinforce what you¡¦ve learned with Student Learning Worksheets, answers to Critical Thinking Activities, Appendices, and links to additional sources.

Now in full color, this easy-to-understand textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to nursing research concepts and methods. Evidence-based practice is emphasized throughout, with clear guidelines for evaluating research and applying scientific evidence to practice. Coverage includes qualitative and quantitative research, appraising and critiquing research, critical thinking, and clinical decision-making using research information.

• Separate coverage of quantitative and qualitative research makes each type of research easier to understand.
• Research Vignettes present real-world applications of nursing research to help bridge the gaps among clinical research, academia, and clinical practice.
• Sample critiques of research articles correspond to the principles presented throughout the book and demonstrate how to apply key concepts and techniques when evaluating actual nursing research articles.

• An increased focus on evidence-based practice highlights its importance to nursing research and addresses the proper way to appraise and apply research to practice.
• Completely updated content includes new sample research articles that keep you current with the latest research topics and trends.
• A user-friendly, full-color layout features helpful boxes, tables, and illustrations that highlight key concepts and help you quickly find information.
• Balanced coverage of qualitative and quantitative research ensures each type is equally represented in value and importance to evidence-based practice.
• A set of Research Appraisal Guidelines inside the back cover offers quick reference for completing assignments or evaluating research.

• Includes all the information needed to help both beginning nurses and beginning nurse-researchers understand and applying research findings to practice and conducting research.
• Includes frequent research examples from the best of the literature, strengthened with high-quality examples from the latest published studies, both qualitative and quantitative.
• Provides the most in-depth coverage of quantitative research methods of any nursing research text on the market.
• Comprehensive EVOLVE teaching/learning package includes an Instructor's Resource Manual, an enriched Test Bank, a PowerPoint Collection, syllabi, Data Set Activities (qualitative and quantitative), and more.

• Enhanced emphasis on research appraisal and synthesis for evidence-based practice equips students not just to generate research evidence but also to appraise and synthesize existing evidence for application to practice.
• Carefully edited for a more student-friendly readability and active-voice writing style reduces barriers to learning the typically challenging research content.
• In order to focus the text on the more "need to know” content most important for the majority of students, more in-depth content on conceptual models for those planning to lead research studies has been moved from the book to the companion EVOLVE website.
• Fresh, new, full-color design provides a more "open” look that facilitates learning with Key Terms highlighted in color and color tabs for the Index and Glossary.
• Research examples have been updated throughout to reflect the most current research from the published literature, including excellent examples of qualitative studies.
• The coverage of qualitative research has been carefully revised to highlight examples of high-quality qualitative research and to present both qualitative and quantitative approaches as equally valuable.
• EVOLVE website provides examples of both qualitative and quantitative research proposals.
• Now focuses on the "how to's” of seeking research funding and provides a practical tool to help new researchers move from research proposal to funded research project.
• UNIQUE! Authoritative coverage provides students the opportunity to learn first-hand from the leaders in the field.
• UNIQUE! Separate chapter on the cost-driven field of outcomes research helps nurses to demonstrate that what they do results in positive healthcare outcomes.
• UNIQUE! Provides a separate chapter on the emerging field of intervention research, which establishes "causal explanations" for nursing interventions in response to the growing difficulty of performing true experimental research on human participants.

• The NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate chapter is dedicated to success on the NCLEX-RN exam, including valuable tips on how to prepare for and pass the exam.
  
• The Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing chapter combines in-depth coverage on seeking employment, resume writing, and interviewing techniques and prepares students to find and get the job they want.
  
• Updated content on effective communication and team building, conflict management, collective bargaining, and nursing informatics.
  
• Other outstanding features include lively cartoons, chapter objectives and exercises, boxed information, and critical thinking questions to keep students focused on pertinent information.

• Full-color design highlights important information and enhances visual appeal.
  
• Updated Table of Contents and streamlined organization improves the flow of material covered.
  
• New chapter on Mentoring and Preceptorship provides an in-depth look at strategies useful when assuming these roles in practice.
  
• New chapter on Nursing Theories includes discussion on nursing theorists, how nursing theory is used in practice, and the future of nursing theory.
  
• New chapter on Work Place Issues includes timely information on workplace advocacy, the nursing shortage, mandatory overtime, workplace safety, and bioterrorism.
  
• New chapter on Quality Patient Care focuses on quality management principles and their subsequent effect on both external and internal forces, and the role of the nurse in quality process improvement.
  
• New chapter on Cultural & Spiritual Awareness describes cultural competence and the principles of culturally competent care and how end-of-life issues impact nursing practice.

The sixth edition of this best-selling resource continues to teach nursing, health professions, medical and social science readers the importance of cultural competence and cultural awareness in the health care industry. The new edition will include revised organization to create a better flow of content, new content on gererational differences, updated chapter on health care delivery system, updated illustrations and tables and MediaLink icons. For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.