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Klappentext Nursing research is a diverse discipline which draws on methods and methodologies from across the social, behavioural and biomedical sciences. Few if any of the approaches to research used within nursing are unique; however, their application within the complex milieu of nursing care has frequently raised distinctive challenges and generated novel applications. Nursing Research Methods brings together seminal sources that illustrate both the origins and the state of the art of research in nursing. The editors draw on methodological sources from outside the discipline that are influential and have shaped nursing research as well as discussions and debates about the application of particular methods within the field. The text is organised around a selection of 8-10 seminal studies which have been selected based on their significance and ability to represent the broad scope of the discipline. Studies are selected to provide a vehicle to cover key methods for nursing research and to represent some of the diversity of the research topics that constitute the discipline. Because of the wide international audience, the editors take a broad view of the 'family' of nursing to include health visiting, public health nursing and midwifery and nurse midwifery. Zusammenfassung Nursing research is a varied area of study which draws on methods and methodologies from across the social! behavioural and biomedical sciences. This collection presents seminal articles that illustrate the foundations and the latest research in nursing. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES Observational and Quasi-Experimental Research Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals - Jack Needleman, Peter Buerhaus, Soeren Mattke, Maureen Stewart and Katya Zelevinsky Nurses' Reports on Hospital Care in Five Countries - Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane, Julie A. Sochalski, Reinhard Busse, Heather Clarke, Phyllis Giovannetti, Jennifer Hunt, Anne Marie Rafferty and Judith Shamian Outcomes of Variation in Hospital Nurse Staffing in English Hospitals: Cross-sectional analysis of survey data and discharge records - Anne Marie Rafferty, Sean P. Clarke, James Coles, Jane Ball, Philip James, Martin McKee and Linda H. Aiken Florence Nightingale Gets No Respect: As a statistician that is - D. Neuhauser Hospital Construction and Management - C. Robinson Problems and Methods in Research - Kerr L. White Generating New Knowledge from Existing Data: The use of large data sets for nursing research - Tracy Magee, Susan M. Lee, Karen K. Giuliano and Barbara Munro 'Failure to Rescue' as a Measure of Quality of Hospital Care: The limitations of secondary diagnosis coding in English hospital data - Martin McKee, James Coles and Philip James Registered Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in Acute Care: Looking back, pushing forward - Sean P. Clarke Why We Need Observational Studies to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Health Care - Nick Black The Causal Assumptions of Quasi-Experimental Practice - Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell Controlled Trials Patient Outcomes for the Chronically Critically Ill: Special care unit versus intensive care unit - Ellen B. Rudy, Barbara J. Daly, Sara Douglas, Hugo D. Montenegro, Rhayun Song and Mary Ann Dyer Therapeutic Nursing or Unblocking Beds? A randomised controlled trial of a post-acute intermediate care unit - Andrea Steiner, Bronagh Walsh, Ruth M. Pickering, Rose Wiles, Jilly Ward and Julia I. Brooking Substitution of a Nursing-Led Inpatient Unit for Acute Services: Randomized controlled trial of outcomes and cost of nursing-led intermediate care - Peter Griffiths, Ruth Harris, Gerald Richardson, Nancy Hallett, Shelley Heard and Jenifer Wilson-Barnett Threats to Validity in Randomized Clinical Trials - Louis Fogg and Deborah Gross Statisti...
