Teaching research in undergraduate nursing education

This textbook provides alternative ways of thinking about research and the use of research in nursing practice. New textbooks on nursing research may be written, curricula reorganized to provide a different emphasis on research, new teaching strategies applied, and new learning experiences offered; but, in the final analysis, the key to inculcating in students an excitement about inquiry in nursing rests with the faculty. Faculty clearly convey their own beliefs about research and its relevance for practice; they can encourage or dampen a student's interest and inquisitiveness about nursing phenomena, in part, by their own beliefs about inquiry and, in part, by their approach to students.