As future practicing nurses, evidence-based practice helps you stay updated about new medical protocols for patient care. EBP, or evidence-based practice, is an indispensable part of health care and plays a critical role in reducing practical variability, enhancing health care quality, perfecting the health care system, improving patients’ outcomes, and decreasing costs.
As nursing students, it is important for you to understand that evidence that supports a conclusion is part of the research process. Literature reviews often accompany research papers in the form of a summary and synthesis of the published information about the research topic. Although this week’s assignment is not a literature review, it is designed to familiarize you with the practice of finding appropriate sources and information on a topic.
Find 3 original research articles that apply to your research topic (see end of page for research topic),. The articles must be
· peer reviewed,
· recent (published within 5 years), and
· statistically significant.
Write a 350-word summary of each article in which you identify
· participants
· independent variable(s)
· dependent variable(s)
· methods and
· results.
Determine whether these articles are suitable for inclusion in a literature review for your research topic. If they are not explain why. If they are explain how the information can be used to inform practice. ,
Compile all summaries in 1 document. ,
Include a PDF of and APA citation for each article. ,
Submit the articles and summaries.
Grading Criteria Info
10 point deduction for missing PDFs for each article
5 point deduction for each element missing from summary discussion for each article.
Identify a Research Topic
Grove, S.K. & Gray, J. R. (2023) define a research topic as “a concept or broad issue that is important to nursing, such as chronic pain management, posttraumatic stress disorder assessment, prevention of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) spread, and health promotion strategies for children” (p.129).
Define your broad research topic in one to two sentences. Enter your response on a new line.
Health promotion strategies for children focus on developing and implementing interventions that encourage healthy behaviors and prevent disease in pediatric populations.