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Internet for Nursing Research: A Guide to Strategies, Skills, and Resources
by: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD RN FAAN, Kristen S. Montgomery PhD RN IBCLC

Internet for Nursing Research: A Guide to Strategies, Skills, and Resources
By Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD RN FAAN, Kristen S. Montgomery PhD RN IBCLC

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-09-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0826145450
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780826145451

Synopsis
Fitzpatrick (nursing, Case Western Reserve University) and Montgomery (nursing, University of South Carolina) show nurses and students how to use the Internet as a tool in all aspects of nursing research. They provide descriptions of Internet-based research methods, information about online methods for teaching research, and methods for accessing the research of others. Appendices include samples of existing research projects that use Internet-based methodologies, and lists of online resources for nursing researchers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Reviewer:Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN (Slippery Rock University )
Description:This book provides a guide for utilizing the Internet in all aspects of nursing research. This includes conducting research, teaching research, and using research.
Purpose:The purpose of this book is to provide a resource for nurse researchers and students of research wanting to use the Internet more effectively for scientific and teaching purposes. With the increase in online research courses and conducting research online, these are worthwhile objectives.
Audience:The target audience for this book is nurse researchers and students of research who want to use the Internet more effectively in conducting research. The authors have written other texts on Internet usage and nurses.
Features:This book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on using more sophisticated methods of accessing information online including key resources for evidence-based practice. Part II includes information for conducting research online including subject recruitment and data collection via the Internet. Part III deals with teaching research courses online at the undergraduate and graduate levels. An additional feature of this book is the appendices. The first includes samples of Internet research-based projects. The second includes web resources for nursing research.
Assessment:This book should be quite useful to the target audience. This book deals with the most frequent issues and questions regarding Internet nursing research. This book is a must for introducing the use of the Internet for nursing research.

More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature. She is senior editor for the Annual Review of Nursing Research. series, now in its 24th volume. In 1998 Dr. Fitzpatrick was senior editor of the of the first volume of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research as well as a series of Research Digests, including Nursing Research Digest, Maternal Child Health Nursing Research Digest, Geriatric Nursing Research Digest, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Research Digest. She is co-series editor for the Annual Review of Nursing Research (Annual, Springer Publishing Company); co-author, with Jeanne Novotny, Doris Lippman, and Nicole Sanders, of 101 Careers in Nursing (Springer paperback 2006); co-author, with Mary Jane Smith, of Best Practices in Nursing Education: Stories of Exemplary Teachers (Springer Publishing Company, 2005); co-editor, with Kristen S. Montgomery, of Internet for Nursing Research: A Guide to Strategies, Skills, and Resources (Springer Publishing Company, 2004); co-editor, with Ann Glasgow and Jane Young, of Managing Your Practice: A Guide for Advanced Practice Nurses (Springer Publishing Company, 2003); co-editor, with Kristen S. Montgomery, of Essentials of Internet Use in Nursing (Springer Publishing Company, 2002); co-editor, with Kristen S. Montgomery, of InternetResources for Nurses (now in its second edition, Springer Publlishing Company, 2002); co-editor, with Carol Romano and Ruth Chasek, of The Nurses’ Guide to Consumer Health Web Sites (Springer Publishing, 2001); and co-editor, with Sandra Deller, of Fundraising Skills for Health Care Executives (Spinger Publishing Company, 2000).

Kristen S. Montgomery, PhD, RNC, IBCLC, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. She received her doctorate in nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She earned her MSN from The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and her BSN from Oakland University. Dr. Montgomery is Co-Editor of Maternal Child Health Nursing Research Digest and Internet resources for Nurses, both of which received American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1Developing information literacy32Techniques to improve database searching93Evidence-based practice : getting online information in the clinical setting194Electronic theses and dissertations265An overview of research methods using the Internet416Online subject recruitment477Data collection with personal data assistants528Research collaboratories : using technologies to advance science579Survey research6910Specific challenges in using the Internet for research8111Obtaining grants for Internet-based research projects9212Institutional review board issues in Internet-based research10413Hardware and software options12014Security for research office computers and databases12915Using the Internet in undergraduate research education14516Web-based graduate research courses15717PhD programs online17118Internet-based continuing education in research17719Challenges in research utilization for educators and clinicians182

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