Find a credible scholarly or government resource published within the past 5 years that provides you with at least two facts (ex. costs, morbidity, mortality, safety, or other relat-ed statistics) for why your clinical problem is important (provide statistics). (The internet is a great place to get this information…just don’t forget to cite this information and add it to your reference page).
Find a clinical practice guideline that relates to your question. It must have information that relates to the role of the nurse. The guideline must be the most recent version or published within the past five years. (It is true that guidelines are not always updated with-in 5 years so you will need to discuss this.) There are several websites listed in your text-book that can help with searching for guidelines. The UTA library also has resources for clinical practice guidelines. If the source you use is not actually a clinical practice guideline you will lose a substantial amount of points on your paper.
Find a clinical “how-to” article, a nursing professional practice website, a systematic liter-ature review, a meta-analysis, or some other credible academic resource published within the past 5 years that relates to your practice question.
Hint: Did you notice that you will be finding a total of four different sources of information for your PICO question? To re-cap, these four sources are:
• Statistics you are reporting in paragraph one.
• Nursing quantitative research article for paragraphs 2, 3, and 4
• Clinical Practice Guideline (paragraph 5)
• A source of your choosing (paragraph 6)
o : Write up your findings in APA format and submit them to assignment portal by the due date and time listed in your syllabus. Here’s how to write up your findings:
Start with a 7th edition APA cover page. An example is provided by the instructor. The pa-per itself (not including cover page and references should be six pages or less)
Paragraph #1: This is your opening paragraph. Start with an introduction statement. What is your PICO question? Describe why was it important (share the dollars, morbidity / mor-tality, statistics, safety stats you found with citation)? Paragraph #1 does not have a head-ing. You should put the title of your whole paper in the center in bold font where a head-ing would go. For the rest of the paragraphs, use the following headings: Summary of Re-search Article, Major Variables, Strengths and Weaknesses, Practice Guideline, Fourth Resource, Conclusion.
Paragraph #2: What did your nursing quantitative research article add to your knowledge on this topic? State the design. Researchers use all sorts of different terms to describe de-signs, but you should use one of the broad terms mentioned in our textbook (descriptive, correlational, predictive correlational, experimental, or quasi-experimental). State the sampling method (also using one of the sampling method terms discussed in your text-book), and setting of the study (this should only take one sentence: e.g. “Smith and John-son conducted a predictive correlational study using a convenience sample from a psychi-atric outpatient clinic.”). State the major findings of the study (maximum 3 findings). The findings you share should come from the results or discussion settings and should be rele-vant to your PICO question and your practice as a nurse.
Paragraph #3. Mention the major research variables in your article. Do not include demo-graphic variables unless they are important to the results of the study. For each major var-iable, give a conceptual and operational definition (if the authors did not give a conceptual definition you can say “not given”). However, you can always say something about the operational definitions for variables because the authors must discuss the way in which variables are measured. Give the level of measurement for each variable (nominal, ordi-nal, interval, or ratio).