From reviews of the previous volume:
""This volume should be quite useful to the target audience. It provides
a good foundation for evidence-based practice and further research (4
stars).""
--Doody's Book Review Service
The nursing community is continually challenged with expanding the
empirical knowledge base that informs rural nursing practice. This
volume of the prestigious "Annual Review of Nursing Research, Focus on
Rural Health," addresses this challenge. Contributors have developed
creative and effective strategies to identify relevant research and
present them in the context of the rural delivery system.
Topics include:
- Nursing Research to Meet Health Care Needs of Rural Populations
- Improving Systems, Quality of Care & Patient Safety
- Improving Cultural Relevance of Rural Nursing Research: Methodological
Issues, Constraints, and Opportunities
- Also included: Contents of Previous 10 Volumes
The contributors, all noted nurse scientists, discuss the key problems
they deal with on a daily basis, utilizing recent rural and general
health policy reports. This approach allows readers to learn new
techniques and strategies for rural nursing practice that are firmly
grounded in the evidence. While the primary examples are drawn from
American contexts, a special chapter on global perspectives highlights
analogous problems and issues that rural nursing research raises across
countries, particularly the availability of resources.
About the Editors
This volume is edited by Elizabeth Merwin, Associate Dean, Research and
the Director of the Rural Health Care Research Center at the University
of Virginia School of Nursing. The series editor is Joyce J.
Fitzpatrick, who has received numerous honors and awards including the
American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times, and is the
Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School
of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.
