NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence

Where Do You Go From Here?
How has your thinking changed about nursing research and evidence based practice as the result of this course? What challenges do you anticipate you will face in implementing EBP, and how will you overcome these challenges?

Reading Research Literature – Week 5
Type your answers to the following questions using complete sentences and correct grammar, spelling, and syntax. Click Save as and save the file with your last name and Assignment, e.g.,NR 439 _RRL_Smith.Submit to the Week 5 RRL basket in the Dropbox by11:59 pm MT Sunday at the end of Week 5. The guidelines and grading rubric for this Assignment may be found in Doc Sharing. NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence

Title: RRL
Name:[replace this text with your name]
The following questions pertain to:
George, S., & Thomas, S. (2010). Lived experience of diabetes among older, rural people. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(5), 1092-1100. NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence

1) What is the purpose of this research?
2) What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit.
3) Did the authors describe the research design of this study? If so, give a description.
4) Describe the population (sample) for this study.
5) Was the sample adequate for the research design that was selected?
6) Describe the data collection procedure.
7) How were the data analyzed after collection?
8) Discuss the limitations found in the study.
9) Discuss the authors’ conclusions. Do you feel these conclusions are based on the data that they collected?
10) How does this advance knowledge in the field? The following questions pertain to: Hunt, C., Sanderson, B., Ellison, K., (2014). Support for diabetes using technology: A pilot study to improve self-management. MedSurgNursing, 23(4), 231-237. NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence
11)What is the purpose of this research?
12)What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit.
13) Did the authors describe the research design of this study? If so, give a description. 14)Describe the population (sample) for this study.
15) Was the sample adequate for the research design that was selected?
16) Describe the data collection procedure.
17)How were the data analyzed?
18)Discuss the limitations found in the study?
19)Discuss the authors’ conclusions. Do you feel these conclusions are based on the data that they collected?
20)How does this advance knowledge in the field.

Description

Learning Goal: I’m working on a writing case study and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Identify a research question in a peer reviewed journal article and discuss what approach would be best to study the question and why.

All writing exercises must be in APA format and ran for plagiarism rates. There is no minimum or maximum paper length for the writing exercises. All of the questions in the writing exercise must be answered along with evidence of critical thinking. NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence

his week we will move quickly into the nuts and bolts of research by selecting a research approach. Tasks for you to complete this week include: Feel free to use this document to organize your work Chapter 1 The Selection of a Research Approach.doc

Read Chapter

Reviewing the Creswell power point (if you would like)

Completing writing exercises 1, 2, & 3.

The goal of this course is for you to become familiar with each of the research approaches, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods, and choose ONE (1) of them to focus on. For example, if you decide to use qualitative data you will only have to complete the assignments related to qualitative data. NR 439 Week 8 Discussion Applying and Sharing Evidence

I will also encourage you to take a look at the Resource Module. I will post items here that could be helpful for you. We do have a librarian assigned to our course, Mr. Revel’s contact information can be found in the resource module.

Please let me know what questions you have!

Additional Resources:

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