ABSTRACT

This Reader reproduces fifteen classic and influential accounts of nursing research selected by a panel of senior nurse researchers and teachers. It provides accompanying commentary explaining why the research is good, how it relates to the research tradition and the influence and impact of the piece of research.
Introductory and concluding chapters review the literature on the evaluation of research and the position of nursing research in relation to that conducted in medicine generally. Exemplary Research for Nursing and Midwifery is an invaluable reference for any nurse of midwife embarking on the research process.

chapter |8 pages

PART ONE Research classics

chapter |3 pages

Organisation and administration

chapter |1 pages

Conditions of service

chapter |4 pages

The training programme

chapter 2|12 pages

The unpopular patient

chapter |7 pages

Pre-operatively

chapter |9 pages

DISCUSSION

chapter |2 pages

ESTABLISHING THE RESEARCH UNIT

chapter |1 pages

Length of stay

chapter |9 pages

INCIDENCE OF PRESSURE SORES

chapter |1 pages

Special preparations

chapter |17 pages

FINDINGS

chapter |16 pages

COMMENTARY ON THE SOCIAL DEFENCE SYSTEM

chapter |4 pages

PART TWO Conceptualising practice

chapter |4 pages

KNOWLEDGE EMBEDDED IN EXPERTISE

chapter |16 pages

UNPLANNED PRACTICES

chapter 3|12 pages

components of Giddens’s model

chapter |10 pages

THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF HOSPITAL WORK

chapter |7 pages

Identity work

chapter |1 pages

NOTES

chapter |6 pages

REFERENCES

chapter |4 pages

PART THREE Clinical effectiveness

chapter |11 pages

METHODS

chapter |2 pages

COMMENT

chapter |12 pages

NOTES

chapter |1 pages

HEALTH PROBLEM STATUS

chapter |7 pages

DURATION AND EFFECT

chapter |13 pages

West Berkshire perineal management trial*

chapter |16 pages

MAGNET HOSPITALS