This Resource Manual with its accompanying "Toolkit" CD-ROM provides abundant research tools unlike any on the market! The Resource Manual provides exercises corresponding to each chapter from Nursing Research, with a focus on critiquing actual studies. Included are 11 complete research reports; full critiques providing models for a comprehensive research critique; and a never-before-published funded NINR grant application.

The Toolkit CD-ROM offers dozens of resources for conducting research that can be used directly or adapted. Included are templates for wording research questions; informed consent forms; a confidentiality pledge for research staff; literature review protocols; content validity forms; and much more.