Research & Theory

Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination is the only review book on the market with a focus on prioritization and management of care-just like the current NCLEX Examination itself! The workbook's unique approach establishes your foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills. It offers unique preparation for the NCLEX Examination and effectively equips you to practice in today's fast-paced healthcare environment.

• The only workbook available that provides in-depth practice with prioritization, delegation, and assignment questions similar to those you'll see on the NCLEX Examination, including questions in alternate item formats
• Unique three-part organization that (1) equips you with foundational skills to make sound decisions, then helps you apply those skills (2) in straightforward scenarios and (3) then in complex health scenarios
• In-depth Answer Key at the back of the book that provides not only the correct answer but also a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question, whether prioritization, delegation, supervision, or patient assignment.

• Expanded content focus to include psychiatric/mental health, OB/maternity, and pediatrics along with med-surg areas
• New chapters on infection control and obstetrics and maternity
• Greater emphasis on questions involving core body systems and related health problems, such as diabetes and cancer, to best prepare you for the conditions you are most likely to encounter on the NCLEX Examination and in clinical practice
• Four new unfolding cases addressing long-term care, pediatrics, psychiatric/mental health nursing, and OB/maternity
• Additional emphasis on medication safety equips you to take appropriate actions to prevent or remediate medication errors
• Multiple-select questions revised to include at least 5 response choices each, keeping you up to date with the full range of NCLEX Examination item formats

• 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.

Learn how to evaluate and apply research with the #1 nursing research book! Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice is known for its authoritative content, a time-tested step-by-step approach, and abundant use of research examples. With improved clarity and readability, the new edition strengthens its focus on evidence-based practice to better demonstrate how the steps of the research process relate to evidence-based nursing. Written by two of the leaders in the field of nursing research, Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove, this full-color text offers unique insights into understanding, appraising, and applying published research to evidence-based practice.

• Authoritative content is written by two of the true pioneers in nursing research, who offer unique, first-hand insights into the field.
• Research examples provide practice in working with published studies, with many of the examples including Critical Appraisal and Implications for Practice sections.
• A clear, step-by-step organization introduces the research process and demonstrates how this systematic framework relates to evidence-based practice.

• An expanded emphasis on evidence-based practice helps you develop skills in studying and appraising published research, so you are prepared for your role in working with research evidence.
• Enhanced coverage of qualitative research allows prepares you to approach research questions and clinical questions with an unbiased view of the researcher's methodology.
• Two different appraisal processes are included:


• A traditional in-depth critical appraisal process prepares you for graduate-level work in research.
• A concise, practice-focused research appraisal process equips you for quick and accurate evaluation of the applicability of research findings to clinical practice.
• Updated research examples prepare you for evidence-based practice by using the physiologic conditions and hospitalized patients seen in clinicals.

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.