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Take your study of the book further with carefully selected web links to accompany each Chapter.
Please click on the Chapter headings below to drop down/up recommended reading and access SAGE journals.
Chapter 1: Research in Nursing
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine: www.cebm.net – based at the University of Oxford, the centre provides courses and workshops for healthcare staff wanting to develop evidence-based medicine skills.
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd – part of the National Institute of Health Research which provides a database of the effectiveness of health and social care interventions and systematic reviews.
- Cochrane Reviews: www.cochrane.org/ – systematic reviews of primary research in healthcare and health policy, which address specific research questions. The reviews are internationally recognised and published in The Cochrane Library.
- Evidence Based Nursing Practice: www.ebnp.ac.uk – provides information on evidence-based nursing practice and the hierarchy of evidence.
- Foundation of Nursing Studies Centre for Nursing Innovation: www.fons.org/ – the FoNS is a registered charity that works with nurses and healthcare professionals to develop and share innovative practice with the aim of delivering high-quality and evidence-based patient care.
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE): www.nice.org.uk/ – provides advice on best care developed from the best available evidence to health and social care professionals.
- Royal College of Nursing Research Society: www.rcn.org.uk – provides information on the RCN research society and its activities, which include an annual international research conference.
- UK Clinical Research Collaboration: www.ukcrc.org/ – aims to establish the UK as a world leader in clinical research through identifying the barriers to research and working to overcome them. One particular initiative is the support of clinical academic careers for nurses and allied health professionals.
Chapter 2: Sources of Nursing Knowledge
- Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk – provides strategic leadership for public health, the NHS and social care, and is responsible for improving health and well-being in England.
- Higher Education Funding Council for Higher Education: www.hefce.ac.uk –promotes and funds higher education teaching in England.
- Nursing and Midwifery Council: www.nmc-uk.org – the regulatory body for the profession of nursing in the UK, maintaining standards of care delivery.
- UK Clinical Research Collaboration: www.ukcrc.org/ – aims to establish the UK as a world leader in clinical research through identifying barriers to research and working to overcome them. One particular initiative is the support of clinical academic careers for nurses and allied health professionals.
Chapter 3: The Research Process
- BERA guidelines: www.bera.ac.uk – provides information on managing projects in education using ethical principles.
- DH Research Governance Framework: www.dh.gov.uk/ – provides information on the ethical requirements for health and social care research.
Chapter 4: Research Ethics and Governance
Chapter 5: Researching Ethically
Chapter 6: Developing Research Questions
- Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk has details about research funded by the Department of Health and any invitations to tender for new projects under their R&D pages.
- Medical Research Council: www.mrc.ac.uk includes opportunities for projects funded by the Medical Research Council.
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence: www.nice.org.uk for details of published clinical guidelines and those in progress, and how to develop guidelines.
- National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility: www.nihr-ccf.org.uk/site/ docdatabase/rfpb gives guidance on the aims and scope for applications to the Research for Patient Benefit programme.
- RDInfo: www.rdinfo.org.uk for guidance on how to start a research project, including a flow chart that guides the reader through turning an idea into a research question.
- Service Delivery and Organisation Programme: www.sdo.nihr.ac.uk has details of research about the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation research programme. Also available is a checklist for researchers who are preparing proposals, with a section on research questions and research objectives.
Chapter 7: Literature Searching
Chapter 8: Critical Appraisal
Chapter 9: Literature Reviewing
Chapter 10: Writing a Research Proposal
- Association of Medical Research Charities: www.amrc.org.uk provides information on a range of medical research charities that offer grant funding.
- Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk provides information on research and healthcare policy.
- Economic and Social Research Council: www.esrc.ac.uk – the UK’s largest funding body for research related to social and economic issues, offers grants in these areas.
- Higher Education Academy: www.heacademy.ac.uk – the Academy provides services to higher education including teaching development grants, scholarships and some other grants.
- Medical Research Council: www.mrc.ac.uk – the Council aims to improve human health through medical research, and offers grants, fellowships and studentships.
- National Institute for Health Research: www.nihr.ac.uk – the Institute commissions and funds NHS, social care and public health research. It also offers fellowships.
- National Research Ethics Service: www.nres.nhs.uk provides information on the requirements for ethical and R&D approvals.
- Royal College of Nursing Research Society: www.rcn.org.uk – the Society promotes excellence in care through research. It also hosts an annual international research conference, provides three awards and support with ethics and patient and public involvement in research.
- Wellcome Trust: www.wellcome.ac.uk – the Trust promotes excellence in research for health, including providing grants in areas such as public engagement and health and ethics.
Chapter 11: Research Approaches and Design
- Research methods tutorials: www.socialresearchmethods.net/ offers resources for applied social research and evaluation.
- Research Observatory: www.uwe.ac.uk offers teaching and learning resources for research methods.
Chapter 12: Rigour and Trustworthiness in Research
There are no suggested web links for this chapter.
Chapter 13: Experimental Designs
- CASP critical review framework: www.phru.nhs.uk/casp/casp.htm presents a framework which can be used to guide the critical appraisal of research papers. It includes frameworks for both qualitative and quantitative research designs.
- CONSORT – reporting on clinical trials: www.consort-statement.org/ presents the CONSORT guidelines which are used to structure the presentation of clinical trial papers in a number of healthcare journals.
- Randomisation: www.randomization.com gives access to a tool which can be used to help randomise samples for inclusion in research studies.
Chapter 14: Qualitative Research Approaches
- Qualitative Health Research: http://qhr.sagepub.com – a peer-reviewed monthly journal that includes international and interdisciplinary qualitative health research.
- Qualitative Inquiry: http://qix.sagepub.com – a peer-reviewed journal presenting an interdisciplinary forum for qualitative methodology in healthcare and human sciences.
Chapter 15: Evaluation and Outcomes-Based Research
Chapter 16: Consensus Methods
There are no suggested web links for this chapter.
Chapter 17: Action Research
Chapter 18: Other Research Designs
There are no suggested web links for this chapter.
Chapter 19: Systematic Literature Reviews
Chapter 20: Sampling Techniques
Chapter 21: Mixed Methods
- Journal of Mixed Methods Research: http://mmr.sagepub.com/ – this journal is an interdisciplinary publication that covers epidemiological, methodological and theoretical articles about the use of mixed methods research in a range of disciplines.
Chapter 22: Survey Design and Questionnaires
Chapter 25: Other Methods of Data Collection
Chapter 26: Quantitative Data Analysis Techniques
Chapter 27: Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques
Chapter 28: Presenting and Disseminating Research
Chapter 29: Using Research in Practice
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