Offering: Nursing Statistics

Titles: Nursing Statistics: Method and Concepts for Professional Nurses

By Dr. Roberto Bencivenga

eBook (Printed version available)

"Nursing Statistics: Methods and Concepts for Professional Nurses" by Dr. Roberto Bencivenga

Associated Audible Lectures

"Nursing Statistics: Audible Lecture Series" by Dr. Roberto Bencivenga

Who should use "Nursing Statistics: Method and Concepts for Professional Nurses"?

• If you are in nursing school or are a professional nurse in practice, this book will provide you all the information you need to make sense of the statistical methods used in nursing research. This will in turn allow you to properly assess such research and make appropriate evidence-based decisions.
• Regardless of whether you are in a nursing school that uses this course as a textbook, the information and the relevant examples offered here will give you a solid understanding of a crucial and often neglected aspect of nursing knowledge.

What should students know first?

While geared at students who have completed a Grade 12 education in mathematics, this course requires minimal math skills since it focuses on concepts and practical issues.

Topics Covered

• Basic concepts of population, sample, variable, values, data, statistics and epidemiology
• Different features of statistical variables and data
• Appropriate methods to organize and present data
• Numerical summaries of sample data, their advantages and disadvantages
• Graphical methods to summarize data: proper uses and common misuses
• Basic concepts of probability, proper estimation and interpretation of probabilities, probability values of clinical interest
• Sampling methods and their importance in nursing research
• The bell curve and other common distribution patterns of data
• Basic concepts of hypothesis testing, technical aspects of hypothesis testing and common methods of hypothesis testing; how to discover the main feature of a statistical method for testing
• Basic concepts of estimation
• Basic concepts of correlation and regression and common errors found in their use

Titles

Nursing Statistics: Method and Concepts for Professional Nurses

ISBN: 978-0-9810756-7-9

By Dr. Roberto Bencivenga