Doing Clinical Healthcare Research: A Survival Guide will help students, academics and healthcare staff identify and overcome organisational barriers to conducting research in busy clinical environments and show how research should be project managed in order to guarantee successful outcomes for all involved.

'The content is practical, and language and approach easy to get along with. Anyone contemplating clinical research should read it.' - Irene Mabbott, Nursing Standard

Introduction
PART I: PREPARING YOUR RESEARCH
Overcoming Organisational barriers: getting into and around healthcare organisation
Ethical Considerations: Informed Consent and Protecting Vulnerable Populations
Multicultural Considerations
PART II: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RESEARCH
Writing the 'Master' Research Proposal
Identification, Access and Recruitment of research subjects
The Hard Work Begins: Maximising Participation
PART III: COLLECTING DATA AND DISSEMINATING FINDINGS
Operationalising the Data Collection
The Interpretation and Analysis of your findings - gaining value from the research process
Disseminating Findings
Creating and Sustaining research friendly environments

DR SARAH WINCH is Nursing Director Research (Princess Alexandra Hospital), and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia.

DR AMANDA HENDERSON is Nursing Director Education (Princess Alexandra Hospital), Adjunct Professor (Nursing), Griffith University and Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

PROFESSOR LINDA SHIELDS is Professor of Nursing Practice and Education, University of Hull, UK.