Research is one of the subjects that students in the health professions often find challenging and yet the process of finding, critiquing, using and evaluating information is essential to professional development and practice. This book introduces fundamental research concepts that are relevant to the wider health-care and disability support sector while also making strong connections to the various areas of practice that students identify with.Examples and cases are taken from a wide range of professions and countries to help students understand the significance of research used by colleagues from other disciplines and become interprofessional practitioners.

Key features

• Reflects current thinking in the field and shows how an evidence-based approach can be used to create best practice methods and achieve desired outcomes
• Follows the stages of the research process in a simple and logical manner. For example, the last section flows from professions which are more clinical in the sense of acute care such as nursing to more community-based, longer-term care such as midwifery.
• Case Studies - situations, information or examples of interactions that illustrate links between research and practice. These provide a focus for class, tutorial or group discussion and debate.
• Research Alive - These sections in each chapter showcase key research concepts or illustrate major research studies relevant to the chapter.
• Clinical reflection - show the actual relationship between research and practice in clinical settings
• Reflection points - designed to assist with appreciating the communication process.
• Study questions - Key points from content of each chapter can be explored in more detail by responding to the study questions at the end of each chapter.

Valerie Wright-St Clair - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences , Auckland University of Technology

Duncan Reid - Associate Professor/Dean of Health , Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences , Auckland University of Technology

Susan Shaw - Associate Dean, Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology

Joanne Ramsbotham - School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology

Contributors

Anita Bamford-Wade
Felicity Bright
Heather Came
Susan Cartwright
Brenda Costa-Scorse
Caroline Day
Tagaloatele Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Panteá Farvid
Brenda Flood
Dawn Forman
Sue Fyfe
Ray Gates
Rosemary Godbold
Naomi Heap
Colleen Higgins
Graham J. Howie
Marion Hunter
Nicola Kayes
Paula Kersten
Chris Krägeloh
Jason Landon
Janet Larkman
Peter Larmer
Litiuingi Lose ‘Ahio
Judith McAra-Couper
Antoinette McCallin
Barbara McKenzie-Green
Sue McNaughton
Kathryn M. McPherson
Russell B. Millar
C. Jane Morgan
Juliet Boon-Nanai
Shoba Nayar
David A. Nicholls
Deborah Payne
Holly Perry
Kirk Reed
Heleen Reid
Keith Rome
Sandy Rutherford
Rhoda M. Scherman
Elizabeth Smythe
Deb Spence
Robin Sutcliffe
Alice Theadom
Keith Tudor
Wee-Leong Joe Chang
Tineke Water
W. Lindsey White
Denise Wilson
Grace Wong