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 225 points.
Due Date
You are to submit your paper to the Week 6 Research
Article Review Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m.
MTat 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.
