Encyclopedia of Nursing Research

Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase!

Named a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" for 2007 and an "AJN Book of the Year"

The award-winning Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is the comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field. With over 20 new areas of research, and meticulous updates of original entries, the encyclopedia presents key terms and concepts and their application to practice. Pithy entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives, and will be a starting point for future content and references. Nurse researchers, educators, students, and all clinical specialties will find the encyclopedia an important introduction to the breadth of nursing research today.

New topics include NIH-funded research areas, a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals, addictions care, palliative care, translational science, simulation, trauma care, family-centered care, mild cognitive impairment, active surveillance for cancer care, workplace and empowerment research, nurse engagement, nurse-physician collaboration, CAM and empowerment research, spirituality, synthesis and action research, mixed methods research, systematic review, ethnopharmacology, and more.

Key Features:

• Includes NIH-funded research topics
• Provides a comprehensive survey of major nursing research journals
• Adds over 20 new areas of research and updates original entries
• Written by over 200 nursing research experts
• Organized alphabetically for easy access to information

Acculturation
Action Research
Active Surveillance
Acute Care of the Elderly
Adherence/Compliance
Addiction Care
Advance Directives
Ageism
Alzheimer's Disease
Applied Research
Basic Research
Behavioral Research
Biofeedback
Boykin & Schoenhofer: The Theory of Nursing as Caring
Breast-Feeding
Cancer in Children
Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Cholesterol
Caregiver
Caring
Case Study Method of Research
Causal Modeling
Cerebral Ischemia
Child Delinquents
Child Lead Exposure Effects
Childbirth Education
Chronic Illness
Clinical Care Classification System
Clinical Decision Making
Clinical Judgment
Clinical Nursing Research
Clinical Preventive Services Delivery
Clinical Trials
Cochrane Review
Cohort Design
Collaborative Research
Comfort
Community Mental Health
Comparative Effectiveness Research
Complementary and Alternative Practices and Products (CAPPs)
Concept Analysis
Conceptual Model
Consortial Research
Content Analysis
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery
Cost analysis of nursing care
Critical Care Nursing
Cultural Transcultural focus
Cumulative Index Nursing Allied Health (CINHL)
Current Procedural Terminology-Coded Services
Data Analysis
Data Collection Methods
Data Management
Data Stewardship
Delirium
Delphi Technique
Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases
Depression in Families
Depression in Older Adults
Descriptive Research
Depression in Women
Diabetes
Discourse Analysis
Doctoral Education
Domestic Violence
Drinking and Driving among adolescents
Eating Disorders
Elder Mistreatment
Electronic Network
Emergency Nursing
Empathy
End-of-Life Planning and Choices
Enteral Tube Placement
Epilepsy
Ethics of Research
Ethnogeriatrics
Ethnography
Evaluation
Evidence-Based Practice & nurse role
Experimental Research
Exploratory Studies
Factor Analysis
Failure to Thrive (Adult)
Failure to Thrive (Child)
Falls
Family Caregiving and the Seriously Mentally Ill
Family Health
Fatique
Feminist Research Methodology
Fetal Monitoring
Fever/Febrile Response
Fitzpatrick's Rhythm Model
Formal Nursing Languages
Functional Health Patterns
Genetics
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Grantsmanship
Grounded Theory
Health Conceptualization
Health Disparities: Focus on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Health Disparities: theoretical and methodological approaches
Health Policy & health services delivery
Health Services Research
Hemodynamic Monitoring
Henderson
Hermeneutics
History of Nursing Research
HIV Risk Behavior
HIV Symptom Management and Quality of Life
HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment
Home Care Technologies
Home Health Care Classification (HHCC) System
Home Health Systems
Homeless Health
Hospice
Hypertension
Immigrant Women
Infection Control
IRB/Informed Consent
Instrumentation
Instrument Translation
Internal Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP)
International Nursing Research
Interpersonal Communication: Nurse-Patient
Job Satisfaction
(Dorothy) Johnson's Behavioral System Model
Kangaroo Care
King
Leninger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Maternal Anxiety and Adaptation During Pregnancy
Measurement and Scales
Menopause
Mental Health in Public Sector Primary Care
Mental Health Services Research
Mental Status Measurement: The Mini-Mental State Examination
Mentoring
Meta analysis
Middle-Range Theories
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Moral Reckoning
Moral Distress
Mother infant toddler relationships
Music Therapy
Narrative Analysis
National Institute of Nursing Research
Neurobehavioral Development and Nutritive Sucking
Newman's Theory of Health
Neuman's systems model
Nightingale
Nosocomial Infections
Nurse Led Group Clinic Visits
Nurse Engagement
Nurse Staffing
Nurse Physician Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Nursing Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis, Interventions, outcomes
Nursing Education
Nursing Information Systems
Nursing Occupational Injury and Stress
Nursing Practice Models
Nursing Process
Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood
Nutrition in the Elderly
Obesity
Observational Research Design
Orem
Organizational Culture
Organizational Design
Osteoporosis
Outcome Measures
Pain
Palliative care
Parenting
Participant observation
Parse
Patient Care Delivery Models
Patient Contracting
Patient Education
Patient Safety
Patient Satisfaction
Pediatric Primary Care
Pender's Health Promotion Model
Peplau's Theoretical Model
Pet Therapy
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Nursing
Physical Restraints
Physiology
pilot study
Population Health
Populations and Aggregates
Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy
Prevention of Preterm and Low-Birthweight Births
Primary Nursing
Qualitative research
Quality of care
Quality of Life
Quantitative Research
Quasi-Experimental Research
Reliability
Reminiscence
Research Dissemination
Research Interviews
Research in Nursing Ethics
Research Utilization
Resourcefulness
Rights of Human Subjects
Rogers (Martha)
Roy adaptation model
Rural Health
Sampling
Schizophrenia
Secondary Data Analysis
Self-Efficacy
Serious Mental Illness
Shivering
Simulation
Sleep
Smoking Cessation
Smoking/Tobacco as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor
SNOMED International
Social Support
Spirituality
Statistical Techniques
Story Theory
Stress
Stress Management
Stroke
Structural Equation Modeling
Substance Abuse and Addiction in Registered Nurses
Systematic Review
Telenursing
Telepresence
Telehealth
Terminal Illness
Theoretical Model
Thermal Balance
Time Series Analysis
Transitional Care
Transitions and Health
Translational Research
Triangulation
Uncertainty in Illness
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
Validity
Violence
Virtual Nurse Caring
Vulnerable Populations
Wandering
Watson's Theory of Human Caring
Weight Management
Wellness
Widows and Widowers
Women's Health
Workplace Violence