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Statistics for nursing : a practical approach / Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, RN, CNM, Professor of Nursing, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, New York.

Heavey, Elizabeth, (author.).

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Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools.Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach, Third Edition is designed in accordance with the Conversation Theory of Gordon Pask and presents the complicated topic of statistics in an understandable manner for entry level nurses. The underlying principle of this design is to give students the opportunity to practice statistics while they learn statistics. The text accomplishes this through the inclusion of relevant clinical examples followed by end of chapter application exercises.The Third Edition has been updated with practice activities which enable students to apply the content they have learned. In addition, the authors have included new research articles to develop and reinforce literature critiquing skills. These new features provide more opportunities for students to apply the concepts learned while the explanations are beneficial to clinical experts interested in further developing evidence-based skills. This text meets the needs of both undergraduate nursing research students who need to learn how to critically analyze literature as well as graduate DNP students who must also be familiar with statistics for nursing in accordance with the rigor of the DNP program. New to the Third Edition:* Additional review questions* New and updated graphs and figures* Updated lesson content for computer application exercises.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781284142013 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Third edition.
  • Publisher: Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction to statistics and levels of measurement -- Presenting data -- Descriptive statistics, probability, and measures of central tendency -- Measuring data -- Sampling methods -- Generating the research idea -- Sample size, effects size and power -- Chi square -- Student test -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation coefficients -- Regression analysis -- Relative risk, odd ratio and attributable risk.
Subject: Nursing > Statistical methods.

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