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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Measurement in Nursing and Health Research

Measurement in Nursing and Health Research 4th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Carolyn Waltz, Ora Lea Strickland and Dr. Elizabeth Lenz offer new and emerging strategies for testing the validity of specific measures. This text discusses computer-based testing: the use of Internet research and data collection. It investigates methods for measuring physiological variables using biomedical instrumentation.

This text includes information on measurement practices in clinical research, focusing on clinical data collection methods, such as clinimetrics and identifying the challenges of measuring quality of care and how to address them. It presents everything nurses and health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measuring in nursing.

Thoroughly updated, this book now contains only the latest, most cutting-edge measurement instruments that have direct applicability for nurses and health researchers in a variety of roles, including students, clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators, and consultants.


Using clear and accessible language, the authors explain in detail, and illustrate by example, how to conduct sound measurement practices that have been adequately tested for reliability and validity. This edition is enriched with topics on the leading edge of nursing and health care research, such as measurement in the digital world, biomedical instrumentation, new clinical data collection methods, and methods for measuring quality of care.


Carolyn F. Waltz, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her BSN and MS degrees in public health nursing from the University of Maryland and her PhD in education with specialization in research, evaluation and measurement from the University of Delaware. 
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