"The purpose of this book is to introduce you, the nursing student, to the key concepts involved in nursing and healthcare research. The aim of introducing research is two-fold: the first is to enable you to better understand the research you read to inform your practice and to make some judgements about its quality. The second is to prepare you to undertake research either as part of your role at work or as part of a course of study. Many nurses believe that understanding research, let alone undertaking research, is beyond them. This book sets out to explode this myth by demonstrating that the processes involved in the design and undertaking of research are easily understood."--Page 1.