Devry NR439 Week 6 assignment
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Research Article Review Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is
for the student to learn to assimilate, analyze, critique, and summarize an
original research article.
Student is to select a report of a
single, original study that has been published within the last five years from
the CCN Library. Course Outcomes Through this assignment, the student will
demonstrate the ability to meet the following course outcomes:
CO1: Examine the sources of evidence
that contribute to professional nursing practice.
(PO #7) CO2: Apply research
principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies.
(
POs #4 and 8)
CO4: Evaluate published nursing
research for credibility and lab significance related to evidence-based
practice.
(POs #4 and 8)
CO5: Recognize the role of research
findings in evidence-based practice.
(POs #7 and 8)
Points
The assignment is worth a total of
200 points.
Due Date
You are to submit your paper to the
Week 6 Research Article Review Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of
Week 6.
Requirements
Through this assignment, the student
will:
1.
Conduct a systematic search of
relevant databases to find research-based evidence related to a nursing problem
(CO 1); Student is to use the CCN library for search.
2. Critique a peer-reviewed study, indicating the research
question, sample, design of study, data collection method, findings, and
limitations of each (CO 2, CO 4,)
3.
Summarize the research article and
evaluate the significance to nursing. (CO 3).
4. Please remember this assignment can be sent to Turnitin Week
One draft box for review. If you wait until late Sunday night to submit, you
may not receive your feedback in time if you need to make changes. Final
submission must be in the Week 6 Assignment Dropbox and student will not
receive Turnitin results. Please read the announcement on the Turnitin
information.
5.
Article must be from CCN Library and
student is required to document working permalink to article.
Preparing the Paper
Conduct a PICO(T) search on the
nursing problem that you identified in Week 2, Discussion questions. Select one
most recent peer-reviewed study that describes original research in a single
study.
Analyze the article and provide the
following information in brief format: research question the study; type of
sample and number of participants; research design of the study, findings of
the study; and limitations of the study. Summarize the importance to nursing.
The estimated length of this paper
is four (4) pages, excluding the title page and References page. Summarize the
results of the study as outlined below:
1.
Write a brief introduction to your
paper, however do not label it as an “Introduction” in accordance with the
rules of APA scholarly writing.
2.
State the research question for this
study in a paragraph.
3.
Describe the research design of this
study.
4.
Explain how the sample was selected
and include the number of participants. Make a judgment as to whether the
sample size was adequate, and defend your answer why or why not.
5. Describe the data collection method(s) including who
collected data, what tools were used, and other pertinent information.
6. Identify the limitations of the study, and describe how the
limitations could be overcome in subsequent studies.
7. Describe the findings reported in the study. What is the
answer to the research question based on these findings? If the study fails to
answer the research question, what do you believe is the reason?
8. Summarize the article. Based on these findings, is the
evidence that you found on your topic strong enough to suggest a change in
practice, or an idea for practice? Please provide the rationale for your
answer.
9. List your references, formatted in APA style, On the
References page. Guidelines and a sample paper on APA may be found under Course
Home in the Course Resources link. Follow the guidelines for writing
professional papers using APA formatting as described in the 6th edition of the
manual.
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