The purpose of this assignment is for the student to learn to examine, analyze, critique, and summarize an original research article. Student is to select an article from a list located in Course Resources. There is a choice of articles from which you must choose ONE to complete this assignment.

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.     Critique a peer-reviewed study, and in your own words, describe the research question, sample, design of study, data collection method, findings, and limitations of each. (CO 1, CO2,)

2.     Summarize the research article and evaluate the significance to nursing. Do not just quote the author’s words. Paraphrase the information. (CO 4, CO5).

Guidelines to writing the Paper

1.     Course Resources lists articles from which you are to select ONE to analyze.

2.     Retrieve the full-text version of the article from the library. Read it thoroughly.

1. Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
   1. Provide a brief description of the research article to be discussed.  
   2. Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to the research article reviewed and the implications that it has to evidence based nursing practice.
   3. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

4.     Describe the research question for this study in a paragraph.

1. Describe the research in greater detail.
2. Include your observations about this question.
3. Discuss events or trends that could have affected this question.
4. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

5.     Describe the research design of this study, and in your own words discuss the design.

a.     Discuss the research design of the study. 

b.     Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the type of design and hypothesize why the author                   utilized the design as opposed to others.

c.     You will need to summarize the information from the article in your own words

6.     Describe the sample.

a.     Briefly describe the sample size used for this study

b.     Make a judgment as to whether the sample size was adequate and defend your answer. 

c.     Describe the number or participants and determine if the number of participants was adequate compared to the research question and the intent of the study.

d.     Are these numbers adequate? Discuss gaps in that you identified.

e.     You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

7.     Describe the data collection method(s)’

a.     Who collected the data?

b.     What tools were used?

c.     What were the ethical considerations addressed and discuss gaps you identified.

d.     You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

8.     Describe the limitations of the study.

a.     Identify the limitations within the study

b.     Describe how the limitations could be overcome in subsequent studies

c.     Comment on why limitations are important to list and discuss within a study

d.     You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

9.     Describe the findings reported in the study.

a.     Describe the findings reported in the study

b.     Discuss whether the findings of the study answered the research question posed within the study

c.     Discuss the credibility of the findings

d.     If the findings do not support the research question posed within the study, what do you believe is the reason?

e.     You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words

10.  Summary

1. Summarize important points from the body of your paper including the key components of the paper.
2. Include a statement about the research question and the findings.
3. Discuss the probability of implementation into practice. 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?
4. End with a concluding statement.

11.  Citations and References must be included to support the information within each topic area. Refer to the APA manual, Chapter 7, for examples of proper reference format. In-text citations are to be noted for all information contained in your paper that is not your original idea or thought. Ask yourself, “How do I know this?” and then cite the source.

1. Reference Page: The Reference Page should start on a new page (insert a page break). All references should be cited within the body of the paperas (Author, year) and the full reference should be included in APA format on the reference page. A url link alone is not an adequate reference. See the APA Guidelines in Course Resources for examples of properly formatted references.

Has to be a minimal of 5 pages, APA format, No plagiarism.

Scenario:

A 14 year old girl that was raped by a stranger and is contemplating abortion.

Criteria

2 page nursing paper

This is a group paper and the topic is below

Topic: Please consider the concept of opioid free anesthesia and its relationship to Lidocaine. 

My PART I need to write about is: Limitations and concerns to lidocaine use.

Need 2 pages and 2 references (REFERENCES MUST BE SCHOLARLY AND WITHIN 7 YEARS-PREFER NURSING JOURNALS ONLY). MUST HAVE IN-TEXT CITATIONS WHICH MATCH THE REFERENCES

1.     What are water soluble vitamins

2.     What do water soluble vitamins do

3.     Therapeutic use of water soluble vitamins

4.     What is vitamin C

5.     Food sources of Vitamin C – Insert pictures as well

6.     Vitamin C deficiency – Insert picture of person with scurvy

7.     Vitamin C toxicity

8.     What is B12

9.     Food sources of B12 – Insert photos

10.B12 deficiency – Insert photo

11.B12 toxicity

BE SURE TO USE INTEXT CITATION AND SPEAKER NOTES.  USE THE FOLLOWING TEXT BOOK AS REFERENCE 

Williams’ Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 15th Edition and one outside source – APA FORMAT IS A MUST

Slides can be broken up in any particular format as long as topics are in order and organized and speak notes support topic.

MUST FOLLOW ALL THE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS BELOW ……

Instructions:

This 2000 word written assignment has two distinct parts that you should address separately. Please use headings for each part.

You do not need to provide an introduction or a conclusion for the written assignment or any of the parts.

There are two family scenarios for you to choose from; select ONE scenario and use this for your entire assignment.

Part 1 – Nursing Care of the Family: Assessment (500 words)

 Create a genogram to visually depict the family’s structure. You must use the PowerPoint slide which will be supplied to you within the Assessment Folder on Learning@Griffith course site to create your genogram. Save the slide as a picture file (*.jpeg), and insert the picture into your document.

•   Below the genogram, summarise the structure of the family to demonstrate your understanding of the family assessment findings.
•   Use the Australian Family Strengths Nursing Assessment Guide (AFSNAG) to identify and briefly describe two (2) strengths of the family you are assessing.Part 2 – Nursing Care of the Family: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating (1,500 words)
  •   Select two (2) issues/challenges for the family or a member of the family you have selected. These issues may be identified by the nurse, family or both. These can be health, social, or developmental family issues/challenges e.g., breastfeeding, social isolation, transition to parenting; they should not be ‘medical’ issues e.g., diabetes, high blood pressure.
  •   For each issue/challenge identified in the family assessment (allow approximately 750 words per issue):
   a) Describetheissueb) Plannursingcarec) Implement nursing cared) Evaluate nursing careo Use appropriate evidence from scholarly literature to describe the issue and discuss what is known about the issue/challenge.o Provide a relevant nursing goal and justify the goal (explain why it is relevant to the issue) using appropriate evidence or policies.o Outline one nursing intervention that supports the family to achieve the goal. Each nursing intervention should be supplemented by the recommendation of an existing online resource for the family and an appropriate referral.