Description
DEL 3
Scenario
As a recent BSN graduate, you sign-up to join a journal club on your clinical unit. The journal club serves as a collective effort to remain current with the literature. The purpose of the journal club is to provide a strategy for evaluating current research and translating it to nursing practice. The facilitator of the journal club has asked you to select, critically appraise, and present your findings at the next meeting. Since this is your first time presenting, the facilitator provides a worksheet to guide you through the process.
Instructions
Select one current nursing research article that may be translated into evidence-based practice. Review the article and complete the worksheet provided.
Your analysis will include the required elements of the research process and will begin the evaluation phase of appraising the literature.
Identify the steps or elements of the study
Determine the strengths and limitations of the research study
Evaluate the credibility and meaning of the study findings
Deliverable 03 – Critical Appraisal of the Literature
Competency: Differentiate the components of the research process.
Review the article that you selected and complete the following analysis. Be sure to include the permalink for the article you selected.
What is the identified research problem? Does the author include the significance and background of the problem?
Did the author clearly articulate the research purpose? What was the purpose of the research?
Identify the study methodology.
Did the article include a relevant review of the literature? Explain.
Describe the theoretical framework for the research study?
What are the research objectives, questions, hypotheses, and procedures identified in the article?
Describe the results of the study along with identified strengths and limitations.
Discuss the findings including relevancy to clinical practice.
Permalink for the article selected.
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