Exemplary Research for Nursing and Midwifery
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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.
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsPt. 1Research classics11The proper study of the nurse32The unpopular patient233Information: a prescription against pain424An investigation of geriatric nursing problems695Pressure sores1006A case study of the functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety111Pt. 2Conceptualising practice1437Uncovering the knowledge embedded in clinical nursing practice1458(Re)writing ethnography: the unsettling questions for nursing research raised by post-structural approaches to 'the field'1539Knowing the body and embodiment: methodologies, discourses and nursing16610Feminism, relativism and the philosophy of science: an overview18811Doing occupational demarcation: the boundary work of nurse managers in a district general hospital20512Towards a more holistic conceptualisation of caring231Pt. 3Clinical effectiveness25913Controlled trial of psychiatric nurse therapists in primary care26114A randomised clinical trial of early hospital discharge and home follow-up of very-low-birth-weight infants27215Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalised elders28416An evaluation of health visitors' visits to elderly women30317West Berkshire perineal management trial31918Lower Medicare mortality among a set of hospitals known for good nursing care33019Research for whom? The politics of research dissemination and application352Index373
