"Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing is an accessible and comprehensive learning tool for nurses returning to graduate school or engaged in evidence-based practice. Peer-reviewed and course tested, the current edition continues to present statistics in a readable, user-friendly format to meet the learning needs of students. Through numerous updates on screenshots, data sets, instructor as well as student materials, additional figures, and hyperlinks in the electronic books, the current edition includes key terms, critical thinking questions, and case studies incorporating research and evidence-based practice to help nurses connect statistics with everyday work in the healthcare field"--Publisher's description.

Evidence-based practice in nursing, or why do i need to take statistics? -- Statistical essentials I -- Statistical essentials II: measurement -- Working with Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS statistics software (SPSS) -- Organizing and displaying data -- Descriptive statistics -- Hypothesis testing -- Getting ready for the analysis -- Examining relationships between and among variables -- Modeling relationships -- Tests for comparing group means: part I -- Tests for comparing group means: part II -- Nonparametric tests -- Categorical data analysis: nonparametric tests of association -- Avoiding common statistical mistakes -- Appendices. Random number table -- How to select the correct statistical test -- Critical values.