Indicative Reading List:
Essential:Melnyk, B & Fineout-Overholt, E (2005) Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: a guide to best practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Philadelphia.Polit DF, & Beck C (2004) Nursing Research: principles and methods.(7th Edn) Philadelphia: Lippincott.Burns N & Grove SK (2003) Understanding Nursing Research. (3rd Edn). Philadelphia. Saunders. LoBiondo-Wood, G & Haber, J (2005) Nursing research: method and critical appraisal for evidence-based practice. (6th Edn) St Louis: Mosby.Gerrish, K. & Lacey, A. (2006) The Research Process in Nursing (5th Edn). Blackwell Publishing. Oxford.Parahoo, K. (2006) Nursing Research: principles, practice and process (2nd Edn). Palgrave Macmillan. New York.Watson, R, McKenna, H, Cowman, S & Keady, J (2008) Nursing Research: Designs and Methods. Churchill Livingstone. Edinburgh.Supplementary:Abbott, P & Sapsford, R (1998) Research methods for nurses and the caring professions. Buckingham: Open University Press.Berg, B.L. (2004) Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Boston. Pearson Education.Bowling, A. (2002) Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services. Buckingham. Open University Press.Gillis, A & Jackson, W (2001) Research for nurses: methods and interpretation. Philadelphia: F.A. Davies.Neuman, W.L. (2003) Social Research Methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches. (5th Edn) Allyn & Bacon. Boston.Nicoll, LH (2000) Computers in nursing; nurses’ guide to the internet. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.Nieswiadomy, R.M. (2002) Foundations of Nursing Research. (4th Edn) Pearson Education. New Jersey.Poilt, DF & Hungler, BP (2000) Study guide to accompany essentials of nursing research. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.Silverman, D (2000) Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Struebert, H & Carpenter D (1999) Qualitative research in nursing. Philadelphia: LippincottIndividual lecturers will provide references for journal articles.
Programme: BNS, Access to MSc / Graduate Diploma in Nursing
Date of Last Revision: March 2009
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