Section 1 Approaches to research<br><br>The Nature and Language of Nursing Research<br>Approaches to Research<br>Participative Approaches to Research<br>Feminist Methodology in Nursing Research<br>Historical Research<br>Evaluation Research<br><br>Section 2 The process of research<br><br>Asking Research Questions<br>Accessing the Nursing Research Literature<br>Synthesising Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence within a Systematic Review<br>The Cochrane Collaboration, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis<br>Evaluating the Literature<br>Research Governance and Research Ethics<br>The Research Proposal<br>Managing a Research Project<br>Supervising Research Students<br>Publishing and Disseminating Research<br><br>Section 3 Research designs<br> <br>Surveys in Nursing Research and Practice<br>Randomised Controlled Trials<br>Single-case Experiments<br>Action Research<br>Grounded Theory Nursing Research<br>Phenomenology<br>Ethnography<br>The Delphi Technique<br>Longitudinal Studies<br>Triangulation<br><br>Section 4 Data collection and analysis<br><br>Interviews<br>Focus Groups<br>Questionnaires<br>Observation<br>Q Methodology in Nursing Research<br>Narrative Research and Analysis<br>Qualitative Data Analysis: Achieving Order out of Chaos<br>Descriptive Statistics<br>Inferential Statistics<br>Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis