Master Critical Appraisal Skills for Healthcare Students

Are you struggling to make sense of complex research papers and craft insightful critiques for your academic assignments? Look no further! Critical Appraisal Skills for Healthcare Students is your indispensable guide to understanding research papers, mastering critical appraisal, and succeeding in your summative assignments.

This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip healthcare students with the evidence skills they need to excel in their studies and beyond. Authored by experienced academics with over two decades of teaching research and evidence-based practice, this text covers core topics such as:

• The significance of evidence in practice and its impact on healthcare decisions
• Locating and selecting appropriate literature for your assignments
• Navigating assignments based on the appraisal of research: strategies for success
• Reading research papers with confidence: understanding and critiquing research designs
• Moving beyond EBP for academic assessment: using evidence in everyday professional practice

In today’s ever-evolving healthcare system, the ability to critically appraise research evidence is crucial. This skill is often assessed through written assignments, but students can struggle to interpret research papers, evaluate their quality, and write about this appraisal in an academic way. This textbook is here to help.

Whether you’re a Level 5 student or at any academic level, Critical Appraisal Skills for Healthcare Students is a valuable resource to help you achieve academic success and develop the skills you need to succeed in evidence-based practice.

Product Details:

Author: Charlotte J. Whiffin
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: March 6, 2024
Language: English
ISBN: 9781119722816, 9781119722892