Postpositivist critical multiplism: Its value for nursing research

Nursing Students Critical Thinking and Research Utilization

Value for money: the nursing health services research - McMaster unit.

The Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, consists of Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas at the Toronto site (see profile in CJNL Volume 21 Number 1) and Dr. Andrea Baumann at the McMaster site. The NHSRU has a multidisciplinary team of 46 co-investigators and more than 50 researchers representing nursing, bus...

European nursing research and its contribution to nursing knowledge development.

Critical Design Value Estimation and Its Applications

The air quality design value is the mathematically determined pollutant concentration at a particular site that must be reduced to, or maintained at or below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in order to assure attainment. The design value may be calculated based on ambient measurements observed at a local monitor in a 3-year period or on model estimates. The design value, howe...

Chaplaincy research: its value, its quality, and its future.

The article is divided into four major sections, the first of which presents and discusses various reasons given by major researchers in the field why chaplains should do research. The second section summarizes findings on the sophistication of research on religion and health published in (a) medical and other healthcare journals, and (b) specialty journals on religion and health, chaplaincy, a...