Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice

Key differences between 10th and 9th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 5 years (2016 vs 2011).
• The First edition of Nursing Research was written by Polit and Hungler and published in 1978.
• New Chapter 20 discusses clinical significance and the issue of interpretation of quantitative results.
• New Chapter 28 provides guidance on how to design and conduct pilot tests using mixed methods research.
• Chapters on measurement and data quality (Ch. 14), and on scale development (Ch. 15) have been entirely revised and updated.
• Chapter 14 now explains methods for assessing reliability and validity of point-in-time measurements.
• Each chapter in the Tenth Ed. has an online supplement with additional relevant interesting material.