With frequent examples from the best of the research literature, this authoritative textprovides you with a comprehensive foundation for appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence for clinical practice. This new edition features an enhanced focus on research as the foundation for evidence-based practice, along with improved readability and more background coverage of qualitative research. This textbook prepares you to understand and apply research, and to go on to conduct original research.

基于最好的研究文献中的频繁出现的例子，这一权威书籍为读者提供了一个全面理解临床实践中症状的评估，联合，和产生的基础。这一新版本更加注重研究，并将其视作以基于症状进行的临床实践的基础，同时改进了本书的可读性并增加了更多的定性研究的背景介绍。本书能够帮助读者理解和进行研究，并继而进行创新性的研究。

* 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 qualitativ