Assignment #5 (Group Assignment)

Critique of Research Articles: Part 1 (due week 7)

Each work group is to write a team paper that critiques and evaluates the research regarding the practice question or topic.  This paper challenges teams of students to create a model for evidence-based nursing practice.  This model will either support (1) current nursing practice or (2) a change in practice.  This model for nursing practice is based on:
•    identifying a nursing clinical topic (Knowledge-Focused Trigger) or clinical question/problem (Problem-Focused Trigger) (as determined in class Week 1);
•    searching the literature for original research evidence (Assignments #3 and #4);
•    writing a critique and synthesis of four original research articles.

For Assignment #5, write the first half of the paper.  Assignment #5 (the first half of the paper) will be approximately 4 pages

Critique each of the 4 articles in your Bibliography for what class has covered so far.  Omit a critique of their titles, abstracts, and literature reviews.
Include critique of ethical considerations throughout.
•    Statement of the research problem
•    Purpose/aims/study questions and/or hypotheses (one of these is enough)
•    Level of evidence
•    Implementation potential
•    Theoretical or conceptual model, framework, foundation, and/or basis (one or none)
•    Design
•    Methods
o    Sampling
o    data collection
o    data quality