NU560 UNIT 4

The literature review is key to any research study or article development. It is important to review the literature within your own discipline, but also other disciplines which may confront similar issues or have related concerns. For example, practice issues in other health related fields often correspond to those confronted in nursing. Nursing education concerns may also be found in academic research within other disciplines outside of the health care field.

• What is the purpose of conducting an organized literature review?
• How will you approach this aspect of your research?
• What literature other than nursing literature do you feel may offer useful information?
• How might you incorporate these ideas into your proposal?
• Provide an example of a piece of literature that supports your topic and provide a brief summary of the article.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Unit 4: Discussion – Reviewing the Evidence

Critical appraisals are used to broaden understanding and summarize evidence. This helps determine if research evidence is ready for practice. There are certain steps to conducting critical appraisals.

• Locate a scholarly journal article(primary source) and apply the steps of the critical analysis found in your textbook.
• Post your analysis to this discussion board.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

• Unit 4: Assignment – Literature Review

This is part 2 of your evidence-based practice project. 

In this assignment, you will refer to the topic you selected for your evidence-based practice problem from the identified list of topics provided by your course faculty in week 1 and the three research articles selected from your week 2 assignment.

For this assignment, you must complete a matrix table for three research articles (see template provided below).  You will be identifying the following to complete the table:  Articles/reference (in APA format), Purpose of the article/Study question, Variables (i.e. independent vs dependent), Study design: Quantitative/Qualitative/Mixes, Sampling, Methods, Instruments, Findings/Result.

You will be identifying the concepts being explored in the study “what” of the study, the methods or the “how” of the study, participants in the study or the “who,” along with the instruments/tools used in the study to collect data, i.e., surveys, interviews, etc.  Lastly, you will state the findings of the study.

 

Remember, the studies should support your ideas and should be less than five (5) years old. They should not be from the Web, but from the library databases. Use the resources found in the library.

In addition, you must follow APA 7th edition guidelines when documenting the reference in the first column.

Please use, at minimum three scholarly references (primary sources only) for this assignment. Provide the full-text link for each of these primary sources.

Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets criteria.

Matrix Table: NU560

Article/Reference (in APA format)	Purpose of the Article/Study Question	Variables (i.e.; Independent vs. Dependent)	Study Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed designs	Sampling	Methods	Instrument	Findings/Results