Literature review

Please Remember to Write in Active Voice

This module is focused on Construction of Clinical/Practice Questions and Literature Review. In completing your preparation this week, pay particular attention to the process of literature review. What are the steps? How do you synthesize findings to guide, inform, or change nursing practice? How do you move evidence into advanced nursing practice?

Read Polit & Beck (2020) - Chapters 26 & 29, this relate to Module Outcome (MO) 1-4.
Pay particular attention to:
Definition of mixed methods research
Mixed method designs
Analysis of mixed methods data
Quality criteria for mixed methods research
Critiquing mixed methods research
Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, metasynthesis, systematic mixed studies review and critiquing systematic.

Review Module 5.
Read Polit & Beck (2020) - Chapters 4-5, which relate to relate to Module Outcome (MO) 1-4
Pay particular attention to:
How to develop a research problem
Statement of Purpose
Research Questions
Research Hypothesis
Types of information for a research review & various bibliographic databases
How to gather references
Literature review protocols
Critiquing a quantitative research report
Critiquing a qualitative research report
How to write a review of literature; and critiquing literature reviews

Polit, D., & Beck, C. (2021). Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th ed.). Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. ISBN-13: 978-1975110642 ISBN-10: 1975110641.