\u003cP\u003eFrom reviews of the previous volume:\u003cP\u003e\u003cI\u003e\"This volume should be quite useful to the target audience. It provides a good foundation for evidence-based practice and further research (4 stars).\"\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e--Doody's Book Review Service\u003cP\u003eThe nursing community is continually challenged with expanding the empirical knowledge base that informs rural nursing practice. This volume of the prestigious \u003cI\u003eAnnual Review of Nursing Research, Focus on Rural Health\u003c/I\u003e, addresses this challenge. Contributors have developed creative and effective strategies to identify relevant research and present them in the context of the rural delivery system.\u003cP\u003eTopics include:\u003cUL\u003e\u003cLI\u003eNursing Research to Meet Health Care Needs of Rural Populations\u003cLI\u003eImproving Systems, Quality of Care \u0026 Patient Safety\u003cLI\u003eImproving Cultural Relevance of Rural Nursing Research: Methodological Issues, Constraints, and Opportunities\u003cLI\u003eAlso included: Contents of Previous 10 Volumes\u003c/UL\u003e\u003cP\u003eThe contributors, all noted nurse scientists, discuss the key problems they deal with on a daily basis, utilizing recent rural and general health policy reports. This approach allows readers to learn new techniques and strategies for rural nursing practice that are firmly grounded in the evidence. While the primary examples are drawn from American contexts, a special chapter on global perspectives highlights analogous problems and issues that rural nursing research raises across countries, particularly the availability of resources.\u003cP\u003eAbout the Editors\u003cP\u003eThis volume is edited by Elizabeth Merwin, Associate Dean, Research and the Director of the Rural Health Care Research Center at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. The series editor is Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, who has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times, and is the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.
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