Navigating the Maze of Research: Enhancing Nursing and Midwifery Practice 6e: Includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Navigating the Maze of Research

Navigating the Maze of Research demystifies the world of research with all the essentials you need to know – how to find relevant research papers, how to conduct your own research, and how to use research findings in your work.

Produced by a high profile editorial team including Australia’s leading nursing researcher, this valuable text is engaging and easy to read. It breaks down research processes into easily digestible sections, each brought to life with student experiences and quotes.

This sixth edition has been fully updated to include the most current advances in research methodologies and literature, and clearly lays out how these benefit nursing and midwifery practice.

• Easy to read and follow – ideal for students
• Research terminology and processes clearly explained
• Comprehensive coverage of research and research essentials, and how these can benefit clinical practice
• Hot topics include navigating ethics, research with Indigenous peoples, diversity and inclusion in research, and knowledge translation
• Student experiences and quotes bring the text to life
• Opportunities for practice and revision – a great study aid
• Updated Evolve resources for students and instructors, including ebook
• Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Navigating the Maze of Research included in all print purchases. Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to the core text, the EAQ prepares students for tutorials, lectures and exams, with access to hundreds of exam-style questions

Student and Instructor Resources:

• Additional Student Challenges
• Self-assessment quiz
• Glossary
• Resource kits

Instructor Resources:

• PPT slides
• Test Bank
• Teaching Tips

Professor Debra Jackson AO is a distinguished nurse scientist and scholar, and her career has spanned clinical practice, academic work, research and scholarship. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). In 2015 she won a Principal Fellowship of the NIHR‐funded Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, awarded in recognition of sustained contribution to generating knowledge to enhance the care of NHS patients. In 2019, her work was honoured through her being awarded Officer of the Order of Australia(AO) for distinguished service to medical education in the field of nursing practice and research as an academic and author. In 2020 Professor Jackson was named as Australia’s leading nurse researcher by The Australian newspaper in their list of Australia’s Top 250 Researchers. This was based on highest number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in the field. In 2020 she was appointed Fellowship Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.

As a nurse, Dr Helen Walthall has been active in research, with a background in cardiac care, mainly in the area of heart failure or acute coronary syndrome. Despite her job title, Helen sees her remit as covering non‐medical, not just nursing, research. With 30 years’ experience in cardiovascular care as a nurse, educator and researcher, Helen has experience in supporting nurses and non‐medical practitioners in developing skills and knowledge in advanced practice and research skills and knowledge through taught postgraduate
programmes and doctoral studies.