Research Handbook: 10 Easy Question - and - Answer Conversations

Research Handbook: 10 Easy Question-and-Answer Conversations, by Sandra Boyd, RN, MS and Cynthia Stinson, RN, PhD, is a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly overview of those important elements every nursing and health care student and professional needs to know when embarking on a research project. Traditional research textbooks put forward similar information in lengthy, often complicated text, which impedes learning. Using their more informal question-and-answer format, Boyd and Stinson cover everything from research ethics to understanding research designs, from data collection to analysis and qualitative research. Delivered in this manner, readers "get" concepts previously found to be complex, time-consuming, and frustrating. Not intended to replace the tradition research textbooks, this adjunct is absolutely essential for anyone desiring a clearer and more logical process.

Sandra Boyd, RN, MS was a nurse for many years for the Veterans Administration. She served as a First Lieutenant in the United State Air Force Nurse Corps, and was Director of Nursing in an acute care facility. She has taught nursing students at the LVN, diploma, and BSN levels and is currently a part-time faculty member at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing, in Lubbock, Texas, where she teaches online courses in the RN-BSN articulation program. Cynthia Stinson, RN, PhD, ARPN-BC is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in adult health and is certified as a medical-surgical nurse through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She received her Master's in nursing from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, and her PhD in nursing from Texas Woman's University (TWU) in Houston, Texas. Her focus is primarily medical-surgical nursing and gerontology. She is presently an assistant professor in the JoAnne Gay Dishman Department of Nursing, Lamar University, in Beaumont, Texas, as well as Director of Academic Excellence and Coordinator for the Continuing Nurse Education Program.