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A Dozen Tips to Start

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If you are new to research, there are a few things you should know going in. For some of these, check out Chapter 1 of Doing Research: A practical guide for health professionals.

Chapter 1 notes 12 tips and tricks for beginning researchers to start and finish a clinical research study. Three are to take baby steps, to consider descriptive research as your first project, and to use a protocol template from an institutional review board (IRB) to plan your study.

Check out the book, or my earlier blogpost that is a primer on descriptive studies earlier blog post, or “read sample” from Doing Research on amazon.com

Happy discovering!

Highfield, M.E.F. (2025). A Dozen Tips to Start. In: Doing Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79044-7_1

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New Book Strives to Make the Difficult Simple

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Doing Research: A practical guide for health professionals, a new book by Martha E. Farrar Highfield is in press Springer Nature. Release date Feb 1, 2025 (preorder available).

Practical, brief, and affordable, Doing Research is for residents, nurses, chaplains, and other clinicians.

Written in informal, friendly style, this book makes the difficult simple.

The purpose of Doing Research is to empower curious clinicians to conduct research alongside a mentor, even when they lack prior research experience or formal training.

Doing Research presents practical steps for conducting a study from beginning to end. It begins with “a dozen tips” to get started, then moves to study planning, conduct, and dissemination of results. A worksheet to write your research plan (protocol) is included. Research terms and process are explained, including what research is and is not. Tips & Alerts provide a “reassuring voice,” as well as alerting readers to common missteps.