Review protocol/strategy
This assignment requires you to reflect on clinical
nursing practice to identify a research question that you wish to explore
further and to develop a review protocol//strategy in relation to the research
question.
This assignment/review protocol is linked with your next course NURS 3046
Nursing Project.
Objectives being assessed
·
Explain the
relationship between knowledge, research and practice
·
Explain the
process of identifying a research question
·
Apply the
research process to develop a research protocol/strategy
·
Apply a critical
approach to reviewing the literature
Task
·
Develop a
research question from ONE of the health themes provided below
·
Apply the PICO
or PIO format to the research question
·
Develop
inclusion and exclusion criteria
·
Develop a search
strategy to direct a search of relevant electronic health databases to locate
specific research articles related to your research question.
·
Implement the
search strategy in the two selected electronic databases.
·
Identify and
record 5 research articles relevant to your research question.
Health
Themes
·
Mothers and
babies
·
Children and
families
·
Acute care
settings
·
Older people
·
Mental health
·
Rural and remote
health
·
Indigenous
health
Assignment
Format
You should present your assignment using the following headings
and ensure that you address each point described under each heading.
Background (1000 words)
1. Based upon the health theme you have chosen, state your research
question including the Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcomes
(PICO) OR Population, Issue and Outcomes (PIO).
2. Explain how your research question is important to patient care,
nursing practice, professional knowledge or research.
Methods
Inclusion and exclusion criteria (800 words)
1. Develop and describe the inclusion and exclusion criteria relevant to your
selected question.
2. Justify why the inclusion and exclusion criteria you have identified are
appropriate (in terms of study design, participants/population, intervention or
issue, outcomes).
Search
strategy (Total 1000 words equivalent)
1. Identify and record 2
electronic databases and explain why these databases are relevant to your
research topic/question.
2. From your research question, identify and record key words that you will use
in your search of these 2 electronic databases.
3. Develop and record a simple search strategy relevant to your research
question using the keywords in addition to truncation, abbreviations, wildcards
and Boolean operators.
4. Implement the search strategy in the two selected databases and identify and
list 5 relevantresearch articles (using UniSA Harvard
referencing) that will enable you to answer your research question.
Please note that you will be using the 5 articles that you have identified
and listed in Nursing Project, which follows this course
