Reading Research: A User-Friendly Guide for Health Professionals

by Barbara Davies, Jo Logan

Learn how to evaluate and apply health sciences research with this beginner’s guide! Reading A User-Friendly Guide for Health Professionals, 7th Edition provides a clear introduction to reading and understanding research articles, with practical guidelines for implementing research into clinical practice. It describes how to interpret common research methods including qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method approaches, and explains how to find relevant, reliable research on the internet. Written by Barbara Davies and Jo Logan, both of whom are noted educators and research experts, this easy-to-use pocket guide is ideal for both students and health professionals.

Concise overview of health sciences-related research maximizes your study time and makes it easier to understand qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods researchSuccinct introduction to reading and understanding health sciences research articles is accompanied by practice worksheets and other learning resources on an Evolve websiteHelpful guidelines suggest how to find interesting research results, identify how to use research results towards planning and delivering best practices and improving patient outcomes, and recommend actions to address barriers to using research in practiceUNIQUE! Tips boxes provide practical, easy-to-follow advice for those who are new to the subjectUNIQUE! Alert! boxes warn of common assumptions made when reading researchRecommendations for best practices in research include brief definitions of popular research terms as well as links to World Health Organization information, the latest RNAO (Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario) Best Practice Guidelines, and guidelines from Australia, the USA, the UK, and other countriesNEW! Enhanced worksheet exercises on the Evolve website demonstrate how to apply knowledge gained from the text, based on research articles drawn from Australia, Canada, Europe, and the USA, on a variety of health issues encountered in hospital and community settings

Genres: Academic, School

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 2011

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only 86 pages. I’m in an advanced nursing program where there is a lot of research. If this is you get this!! You don’t read this it’s a guide!! It’s very handy for writing and researching papers in the medical field!!!

[Michelle Gragg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reference. This is a very basic introduction to reading research. It includes how to approach reading research and how to determine the strength of a study or article. There are also some great worksheets at the end for people who are new to research.

[Martha Highfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a nursing faculty teaching research to undergraduate and graduate nursing students, I use this as a main textbook. Highly readable and very comprehensive for its manageable length of 50 pages of text. Has lists and links of other resources, as well as worksheets for critiquing single studies or systematic reviews and applying them to practice. Includes a concise discussion of barriers to practice with strategies for overcoming them. Pulled out "tips" and "alerts" are on target. Boxes highlight key content areas. Written by two Canadian expert nurse faculty and reviewed by many more.

I tell my students not to sell this one. Keep it for future clinical practice!

As the title indicates, I believe it could be useful to other "health professionals."

(Today was a re-read of the paperback in prep for class. I understand it comes in ebook form as well.)