Nursing Research: Design and Practice

"A highly professional symposium textbook which comes at a good moment for public relations ... and this reminds us that [nurses] are not just carers and moppers-up when the doctors are otherwise engaged, but themselves skilled and knowledgeable health practitioners..." Books Ireland Dec 1999 "This book encompasses many of the things I have learnt over the years to discuss with BSc, MSc and PhD students and clinically-based nurses, prior to supporting them through their research. I will save myself some time and loan them the book. I rather wish I had written it myself." Jane Mallett, Nursing and Therapy Research and Development Manager Nursing Times May 2000

• Part 1: contextualizing Irish nursing research; planning a research project; qualitative research; quantitative research; the research critique; research ulitization; ethical dimensions in research. Part 2: factors influencing nurses' assessment of pain; patients experiences of in-patient mental health care; study of Irish women diagnosed with breast cancer; role of the professional general nurse as perceived and understood by Irish general nurses; hospital nurses' perceptions of health promotion; evaluation case study of the Registration/Diploma nursing programme in Ireland; the making of midwives.