Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice

Key differences between 8th and 7th editions

• Period between current and previous editions: 4 years (2013 vs 2009).
• The First Ed. of Essentials of Nursing Research textbook was written by Denise Polit-O'Hara and Bernadette P. Hungler in 1985.
• In the Eighth Ed. part 3 is dedicated to quantitative research methods and part 4 is dedicated to qualitative research methods.
• New supplementary material is available online.
• New chapter 18 covers mixed methods research designs, the methodologies that involve mixing of qualitative and quantitative data, methods, methodologies.
• The textbook is focused on the problem of asking a well-formulated clinical questions in implementing Evidence-Based Practice and on finding external evidence.
• See side by side comparison of table of contents for the 8th ed. vs the 7th to figure content reorganization.