Research into Practice: Reader for Nurses and the Caring Professions (Social Science for Nurses & the Caring Professions) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335196969 ISBN 13: 9780335196968

Publisher: Open University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Offering selected examples of research, all concerned in some way with nursing or the study of nursing, this text illustrates the kind of research that can be done by a small team or a single researcher, without large-scale research grants. The papers chosen cover a wide range of approaches, differing in emphasis on description or explanation, different degrees of structure in design and different appeals to the authority of science or the authenticity of emphatic exploration. They show the limitations typical of small-scale projects carried out with limited resources and the experience of applied research as it occurs in practice, as opposed to how it tends to look when discussed in textbooks.

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About the Author

Pamela Abbott is Professor and Director of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Teesside. She has previously worked at the Universities of Derby, Plymouth and Brighton when she had considerable experience of teaching nurses and other health care professionals. She is a well known researcher in the field of health and community care.

Roger Sapsford is Senior Lecturer in Research Methods at the Open University. He was previously employed by the Home Office Research Unit and in market research. He is an experienced designer and teacher of research methods courses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0335196969
• ISBN 13: 9780335196968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Abbott Pamela, Sapsford R. J.