NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

The choice of Boolean terminology can markedly affect your search returns. Select a topic related to your area of practice, and select two scholarly databases to find information on the topic.

Describe the search.

What key words did you use?

How many articles did your initial search yield?

How did you narrow or expand the search? NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

How many articles did you find once you narrowed or expanded the search?

Summarize the results from the search.

Searchable Clinical Questions

Guidelines with Grading Rubric

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to: a) formulate a PICO (T)-formatted clinical question, b) identify key terms for conducting a review of the literature, and c) search for relevant evidence in scholarly databases. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

Course Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

(CO #3)Apply research principles to interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO 9)

(CO #4) Analyze data from relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of care. (PO 4)

(CO #5) Analyze the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing. (PO 1) NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5.

Total Points Possible: 140

Requirements:

1. Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format.

2. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements.

3. Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and The Joanna Briggs Institute database. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

4. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form found in Doc Sharing. Although the worksheet is provided, you may need to add additional rows to the grid in order to accommodate your search results. Be sure to include all of your steps in the Notes column.

5. Submit the form to the Dropbox by the due date.
Preparing the paper

1. In Doc Sharing, you will find the Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form. This is the form to be used to submit the assignment. No other paper is required for this assignment. Although this form is provided for this assignment, you may need to add additional rows to the grid to accommodate your search results.

2. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the form as you are doing each search.

3. The Notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search is undertaken. Be sure to include all of the steps you used. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

4. An optimal range of 10–20 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each search. This may require performing a combination of Boolean terms in order to achieve the optimal range. If this is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the Notes section. Points will be deducted if you do not perform enough of a search to arrive at the optimal range.

Example: PubMed

Clinical Question: In patients with muscle spasms, is relaxation as good as anti-spasmodic medication in reducing the incidence of muscle spasms?*

The PICO (T) elements are:

P = patients with muscle spasms

I = anti-spasmodic medication

C= relaxation

O = reducing incidence of muscle spasms

Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

1 Patients with muscle spasms

Description

Requirements:

Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format.
Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements.
Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and The Joanna Briggs Institute database.
Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the “Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form” found in Course Resources. Place this completed form in the Dropbox.
From the articles you found during your database searches, choose ten scholarly peer reviewed articles that would help provide an answer or provide insight to your clinical research question and write them in an annotated bibliography format. Submit this APA 6^th ed format paper into the Dropbox for a Turnitin Review. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search
Submit the Searchable Clinical Questions Form and your annotated bibliography paper to the Dropbox by the due date. The annotated bibliography is the only part of this assignment that you need to have the Turnitin similarity report less than 25

1. In Course Resources, you will find the ‘Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form’. This is the form that you can use to document your search process and results. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the tables as you are doing each search

2. The notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search process is performed. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search

3. An optimal range of 10-15 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each database search. If this is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the notes section. Donot stop too soon or you may miss some valuable article to help answer your clinical question. You want to be able to identify ten scholarly peer reviewed articles that would help answer or provide insight to your clinical research question so you can summarize them in an annotated bibliography written in APA 6^th ed format. The annotated bibliography will be a separate Word document in APA 6^th ed format. NR 500 Week 4 Discussion Conducting a Library Search