NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

Determined the scope of practice in your state.
Described the difference in practice between physician assistants (PAs) and NPs in your state.
Described prescriptive privileges and how to obtain them in your state.
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using APA format.

Testing validity assesses whether research reliably measures the intended purpose of the study and produces facts that are not biased and ambiguous.

Analyze the validity of both studies you selected in Week 1.

For each article, write a response answering the questions in the following:

Box 10.1 Guidelines for Critiquing Design Elements and Study Validity in Quantitative Studies on p. 232 of Nursing Research for your quantitative article.

Box 25.1 Guidelines for Evaluating Quality and Integrity in Qualitative Studies on p. 571 of Nursing Research for your qualitative article.

Type your answers in a Microsoft® Word document using the template provided in the Class Messages.

Include the article’s title before your answers. NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

Provide APA-formatted in-text citations and references for all sources. Include an APA-formatted title page.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. Analyze both studies you selected in Week 1 and utilize the information you gathered in the Week 3 Study Analysis: Critiquing Research Designs and Week 4 Study Analysis: Testing Validity assignments.

Write an evaluation of the research design for each study. Discuss whether the design was appropriate and why. Also highlight aspects of the design that could have been improved, particularly in relation to validity and reliability. Limit paper to 1000-1250 words.

Provide three APA-formatted in-text citations and references for all sources. You may include the articles you selected in Week 1 and Nursing Research as sources. Use the sample paper provided in the Materials section and include an APA-formatted title page. NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment as a single file containing both evaluations

Description

1. Choose a problem or issue that you anticipate within your future advanced nursing role; preferably, a problem or issue that will be the focus for your future MSN capstone project. Describe the problem in approximately five sentences.

2. Next, based on the problem described in question one, formulate a clinical/practice question using the “Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Time (PICOT)” format. This question will drive the literature search for your selected problem or issue discussed in question one. NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

3. To support and assist in choosing and writing your PICOT in question one (#1) of this discussion board, a minimum of 6-10 current research articles with at least one article being a quantitative design should be reviewed. List the articles here as a response to this question three (#3). The articles should be in alphabetical order and each article should be listed as a full reference using the APA (2020) format.NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

4. Choose one of the articles cited in question three (#3) of this discussion board that is a quantitative article and discuss the relationship of your selected quantitative article to your PICOT practice/clinical question. NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

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Critique a quantitative study for design elements and study validity. Use the guidelines for critiquing design elements and study validity, Box 10.1 of your textbook. Read the Introduction and Methods section of the assigned quantitative article (refer to the entirety of the article as needed) and write a paper (no more than 3-5 pages) evaluating the article for critical elements for design and validity. The article may also be found in the Tookit accompanying the Resource Manual. Be sure to read carefully, and pay attention to grammar, sentence structure, and APA guidelines. Be sure to refer to the Rubric used to grade this assignment. NSG 6440 Week 9 Assignment 2 Scope of Practice

Teresi, J., Ramirez, M., Ellis, J., Silver, S., Boratgis, G., Kong, J.,…Lachs, M. (2013). A staff intervention targeting resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) in long-term care increased staff knowledge, recognition and reporting: Results from a cluster randomized trial. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50, 644-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.10.010