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NR439 Week 6-Research Article Critique Paper 2018
NR439 Week 6-Research Article Critique Paper 2018
Purpose
This assignment will teach the student how to examine, analyze, critique, and summarize an original research article. The student must choose an article from the Research Article Critique Article List (Links to an external site.) External website links Open the link to see a list of articles from which you must select 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. (PO7)
CO2: Apply research principles to interpreting published research studies’ content. (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 175 points.
Rubric
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Due Date
You are to submit your paper by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 6.
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Requirements
Through this assignment, the student will:
- Critique a peer-reviewed study, and in your own words, describe the research question, sample, design of the study, data collection method, findings, and limitations of each. (CO 1, CO 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 for Writing the Paper
- Download the Research Article Critique List of Articles (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site, and select ONE to analyze.
- Retrieve the full-text version of the article from the library. Please read it thoroughly.
Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
- Provide a brief description of the research article to be discussed.
- Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to the research article reviewed and its implications for evidence-based nursing practice.
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Describe the research question for this study in a paragraph.
- Describe the research in greater detail.
- Include your observations about this question.
- Discuss events or trends that could have affected this question.
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Describe the research design of this study, and in your own words, discuss the design.
- Discuss the research design of the study.
- Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the type of design and hypothesize why the author utilized the design instead of others.
- You will need to summarize the information from the article in your own words.
Describe the sample.
- Briefly describe the sample size used for this study
- Make a judgment as to whether the sample size was adequate and defend your answer.
- Describe the number of participants and determine if the number of participants was adequate compared to the research question and the study’s intent.
- Are these numbers adequate? Discuss gaps that you identified.
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Describe the data collection method(s)’
- Who collected the data?
- What tools were used?
- What were the ethical considerations addressed, and discuss the gaps you identified.
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Describe the limitations of the study.
- Identify the limitations of the study.
- Describe how the limitations could be overcome in subsequent studies
- Comment on why limitations are important to list and discuss within a study
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
Describe the findings reported in the study.
- Describe the findings reported in the study.
- Discuss whether the study’s findings answered the research question posed within the study.
- Discuss the credibility of the findings.
- If the findings do not support the research question posed within the study, what do you believe is the reason?
- You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Summary
- Summarize important points from the body of your paper, including the key components of the paper.
- Include a statement about the research question and the findings.
- Discuss the probability of implementation into practice. Based on these findings, is the evidence you found on your topic strong enough to suggest a change in practice or an idea for practice?
End with a concluding statement.
- 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 in your paper that is not your original idea or thought. Ask yourself, “How do I know this?” and then cite the source.
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 paper as (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.
Submit the completed paper by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday at the end of Week 6.
NR439 List of Articles for Week 6 Research Article Critique
- Cork, L. L. (2014). Nursing intuition as an assessment tool in predicting severity of injury in trauma patients. Journal of Trauma Nursing, 21(5), 244-252. doi:10.1097/JTN.0000000000000072
- Eley, R., Eley, D., & Rogers-Clark, C. (2010). Reasons for entering and leaving nursing: an Australian regional study. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28(1), 6-13.
