An essential text for all those undertaking a nursing degree within higher education, providing study support and skills development for academic writing and referencing.

What is action research and how can it best be understood? How can practitioners use action research to deal with problems and improve services? What are the different types of action research and which might be most appropriate for use in a particular setting? This book answers these questions.

Clearly set out and easy to understand, this book provides a complete guide to doing action research.

This is a clear, authoritative and practical guide to doing action research in nursing, health and clinical settings from the top names in the field.

This quick reference guide will show you how to succeed in case study assignments. It takes the reader through the process step by step, from reading and understanding the assignment brief through to critically evaluating the case, applying theory and presenting the assignment.

This accessible introduction provides social work students and practitioners with the knowledge they need both to evaluate research and to apply it to their own practice. Exploring a range of research methodologies, the author discusses the strengths and limitations of each and shows the reader how to identify the assumptions underlying them.

Helps you get the most from studying and shows how to make good use of your time and achieve success. This book demonstrates how to develop and build on existing strengths and experiences to get the most out of any course. It focuses on what you need to know. It helps you to: access libraries; use internet and databases; and, develop IT skills.

Ever struggled to write a critical essay? Ever wondered what critical thinking actually is and how you can apply it in your academic work and practice? This guide takes you through every stage of becoming a critical thinker, from approaching your subject to writing your essays or dissertation in health and social care.

A Beginner's Guide to Evidence Based Practice in Health and Social Care is key reading for everyone involved in looking at and applying evidence - students, practice educators, mentors and practising health and social care professionals.

This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what evidence based practice is or how to relate it to practice.

This Student Book supports the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care qualification for the 2010 QCF specification.

BTEC and Heinemann have joined forces to bring you BTEC's own BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care resources -- by the BTEC team, for BTEC learners -- to support you every step of the way to BTEC success.

Placing complex interventions within a coherent system of research enquiry, this text is designed to help researchers understand the research processes involved at each stage of developing, testing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions, and assist them to integrate methodological activities to produce secure, evidence-based health care interventions.

Written for counsellors working in healthcare settings, this book explores the range of benefits of undertaking reflexive research. Gillian Thomas demonstrates how this approach can offer therapeutic benefits by increasing understanding of a condition and the interaction between the physical and emotional aspects of living with a long term disease.

This practical book will equip students with the critical thinking, reading and writing skills required to succeed both on their course and in their professional placements.

Your personal toolkit for critical thinking provides a power pack of resources to help you succeed in your essays and coursework - and in life!

Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project helps readers to successfully plan and complete their research projects by showing them the key skills that they need.

This book gives you the tools to conduct your own documentary research and celebrates the importance of documentary analysis across the social sciences.

This book is written for nursing and midwifery students completing a research project based on reviewing published literature and using secondary data. It de-mystifies the concept of literature review methodology and supports students writing up their dissertation, thesis or work-based learning project.

This practical guide walks you through your whole research project, from first starting out and deciding on a topic or question to writing up and presenting research.