Williamson, Graham R.

Action research in nursing and healthcare / Graham R. Williamson, Loretta Bellman, Jonathan Webster. - Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, 2012. - 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

What is action research? -- Foundations of action research -- Discussion, debate and controversy surrounding action research -- Why choose action research? -- Action research, nursing and healthcare -- Clinical action research to advance patient care -- Conducting action research in clinical practice -- Developing one's own professional practice -- Collaborative working in clinical settings -- Ethical considerations -- Disseminating and evaluating clinical action research projects -- Writing clinical action research studies -- Presenting clinical action research studies to mixed audiences -- Evaluating the quality of action research projects -- Conclusions: looking to the future.

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Nursing Research--methods.
Health Services Research--methods.
Research design.