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NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 2 Assignment  

What Does a Research Hierarchy Look Like?

Overview

Here is a list of twenty nursing journal articles that are available to you through the Library. These articles are from a wide range of study types; from randomized controlled trials (RCT) to expert opinions.

Cotton, B. P., & Ferszt, G. G. (2018). The role of NPs in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Nurse Practitioner, 43(5), 8.

Currie, E. R., Christian, B. J., Hinds, P. S., Perna, S. J., Robinson, C., Day, S., & Meneses, K. (2016). Parent perspectives of neonatal intensive care at the end-of-life. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 31(5), 478–489.

Dai, Y., & Livesley, J. (2018). A mixed?method systematic review of the effectiveness and acceptability of preoperative psychological preparation programmes to reduce paediatric preoperative anxiety in elective surgery. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(9), 2022–2037.

Goh, M. L., Ang, E. N. K., Hong-Gu H., Chan, Y., & Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K. (2018). Patient satisfaction is linked to nursing workload in a Singapore hospital. Clinical Nursing Research, 27(6), 692–713.

Górska, S., Forsyth, K., & Maciver, D. (2018). Living with dementia: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research on the lived experience. Gerontologist, 58(3), e180–e196.

Griffiths, P., Recio-Saucedo, A., Dall’Ora, C., Briggs, J., Maruotti, A., Meredith, P.,…Ball, J. (2018). The association between nurse staffing and omissions in nursing care: A systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(7), 1474–1487.

Guirguis-Blake, J. M., Michael, Y. L., Perdue, L. A., Coppola, E. L., & Beil, T. L. (2018). Interventions to prevent falls in older adults: Updated evidence report and systematic review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Journal of the American Medical Association, 319(16), 1705–1716.

Harvey, E. M., Freeman, D., Wright, A., Bath, J., Peters, V. K., Meadows, G.,…Collier, B. R. (2019). Impact of advanced nurse teamwork training on trauma team performance. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 30, 7–15.

Hooper L., Abdelhamid A., Bunn D., Brown T., Summerbell C. D., & Skeaff C. M. (2015). Effects of total fat intake on body weight. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (8), 1-213.

Jokh Chaaya, D. A., de Souza Nogueira, L., de Cassia Gengo e Silva Butcher, R., Reboreda, J. Z., Silva Bonfim, A. K., & Padilha, K. G. (2018). Pulse pressure and mortality risk in critically ill patients. AACN Advanced Critical Care, 29(2), 118–125.

King, A. J. L., Johnson, R., Cramer, H., Purdy, S., & Huntley, A. L. (2018). Community case management and unplanned hospital admissions in patients with heart failure: A systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(7), 1463–1473.

Li, H., Shao, Y., Xing, Z., Li, Y., Wang, S., Zhang, M.,…Sun, J. (2019). Napping on night?shifts among nursing staff: A mixed?methods systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 291–312.

Lök, N., Bademli, K., & Canbaz, M. (2018). The effects of anger management education on adolescents’ manner of displaying anger and self-esteem: A randomized controlled trial. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 32(1), 75–81.

Mabire, C., Dwyer, A., Garnier, A., & Pellet, J. (2018). Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of nursing discharge planning interventions for older inpatients discharged home. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(4), 788–799.

Milligan, F., Martinez, F., Aal, S. H. M. A., Ahmed, S. A., Joby, B., Matalam, J. S.,…Melepeedikayil, S. S. (2018). Assessing anxiety and depression in cancer patients. British Journal of Nursing, 27(10), S18–S23.

Moxley, E. W., Smith, D., Quinn, L., & Park, C. (2018). Relationships between glycemic control and cardiovascular fitness. Biological Research for Nursing, 20(4), 422–428.

Rahimimoghadam, Z., Rahemi, Z., Sadat, Z., & Mirbagher Ajorpaz, N. (2019). Pilates exercises and quality of life of patients with chronic kidney disease. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 34, 35–40.

Sasso, L., Hayter, M., Catania, G., Aleo, G., Zanini, M., & Bagnasco, A. (2019). Including qualitative research in randomized controlled trials: Opportunities for nursing researchers. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(4), 705–706.

VonStein, M., Buchko, B. L., Millen, C., Lampo, D., Bell, T., & Woods, A. B. (2019). Effect of a scheduled nurse intervention on thirst and dry mouth in intensive care patients. American Journal of Critical Care, 28(1), 41–46.

Yeom, H.-E. (2018). Gender differences in climacteric symptoms and associated factors in Korean men and women. Applied Nursing Research, 41, 21–28.

Assignment Instructions

Review all of the articles in preparation for this assignment. Using this Research Hierarchy Template (Word), you will list one journal article for each of the seven levels of the research hierarchy pyramid (you will not need to use all twenty articles to complete the hierarchy; you will use a total of seven of the twenty articles). Articles will not be used in more than a single hierarchy level.

After you have determined one journal article that corresponds with each of the levels of the hierarchy, provide a one to two sentence statement for each article to explain your rationale for selecting it and assigning it to that hierarchical level. You will write one to two sentences, justifying your selection, using the Research Hierarchy document that you submit.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 4 Assignment  

Start Your Literature Review Matrix

Overview

You will be starting your own literature review matrix (Word) this week. Based on your investigation of the literature from the library and online resources, you will identify two articles that you will use to support your research question and work towards development of your Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal due in Week 15.

Assignment Instructions

Using your two selected journal articles, you will complete the first two rows in the literature matrix using the template provided.

Read your two journal articles and extract the necessary information needed to complete each row for each article.

Thus, at the end of this week, you will have two out of the eight rows of the literature review matrix completed. You will return to the literature review matrix in future weeks.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

 

APA Reference	Research Question	Type of Study	Research Design	Sample, Sample Size, and How Selected	Instruments Used, Reliability and Validity, Data Collection Methods	Results (including statistical analysis Consistent with other Literature)	Limitations

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 4 Assignment 2

What’s Your Research Question? Evidence-Based Practice Project (EBP)

Instructions

Based on your preliminary investigation of the literature and your discussion with the expert clinician, complete the following on a Word document:

Submit a 350-word summary of your clinical research area of interest and explain why you are interested in it.

Ensure you present your research questions that you started working on in Let's Get Started on Research Concepts. You will now have more information from your expert clinician, as well as feedback from your instructor.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 5 Assignment  

Methods for Scientific Inquiry Presentation Group Project

Overview Work with your group to finalize an eight to ten slide (length does not include the cover or references slides) PowerPoint presentation with references about your group’s assigned research method. You may use Zoom or other appropriate recording program to record your narration of the presentation.

In your audiovisual presentation, include the following:

Description of the research method.

Describe whether it is qualitative or quantitative, or both, and why.

What are the steps to using this method? Explain in detail.

Provide an example of one study where it has been used. Summarize the study and how it used your group’s assigned research method.

Identification of challenges and limitations of this method.

Instructions for Creating a Website/URL of Your Presentation

After your recording is complete, use these instructions to create a private, unlisted YouTube video. You will need the YouTube video website/URL for this assignment.

Submit your YouTube video website/URL to this assignment page.

The best way to submit your website/URL is to copy and paste the hyperlink (URL) for the YouTube video into a Word document and select one group member to submit that Word document for this assignment.

Additionally, one person in each group should submit their Word document containing their website/URL for their presentation to Week 5 Discussion 1: Methods for Scientific Inquiry Peer Review by Day 4.

After your recording is complete, follow these instructions to create a private, unlisted YouTube video. You will need the YouTube video URL for this assignment. Submit your YouTube video URL. The best way to do this is to copy and paste the hyperlink URL for the YouTube video into a Word document. Your faculty will access your video via the link. Do not upload a video file (mp4).

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 6 Assignment  

The Details of Your EBP Project

Overview

This week, you will be writing your EBP project proposal. You will have received feedback from your instructor in Week 4 about your research question, so please use those comments and suggestions for the EBP project proposal draft that you will submit this week.

Assignment Instructions

In a Word document, please compose the following as it relates to your research question:

Research Topic

Research Problem

Research Purpose

Research Objectives/Aims

Research Question(s)

Research Hypothesises*

Select Theoretical Framework: write a brief summary about the theoretical framework and why it is relevant to your research topic. (We will return to writing about this in more detail in upcoming weeks.)

*Numbers 1 through 6 should be complete sentences/paragraphs with references as appropriate.

Please remember that you will be building on this proposal throughout the course. The proposal drafts provide an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback and guidance from your instructor.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 7 Assignment  

Informed Consent Form

Instructions

For this assignment, you will complete an informed consent document. Use this Informed Consent Template (Word) for this assignment. You will edit the Informed Consent template to make it about your proposed research project. The language you use to complete the template should be professional, objective, and clear. It should be grammatically  and free of spelling and punctuation errors. For the purposes of this assignment, you are the Primary Investigator (PI) in the study.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 8 Assignment  

Recruiting Participants for Your EBP Proposal

Instructions

For this assignment, write the Sample Section of your EBP Project Proposal in a Word document.

Here is a Week 8 Sample Section Example (Word) of what the sample section can look like.

Sample Section Guidelines

This section covers your planned recruitment and ethical considerations for your future participants. It should take up about two to three pages, or approximately 350 to 500 words. The purpose is to tell the reader what your recruitment plan is for the study. You should have subheadings throughout this section of the paper.

In this section, write about the following:

Sample: Cover the following points in no more than two paragraphs each:

How subjects will be recruited

What the inclusion criteria will be (for more expansion, you may add the exclusion criteria to show what was consciously eliminated)

The type of sample (random, purposive, convenience, etc.)

The proposed sample size and rationale for this choice

The selection method (random table of numbers, flip a coin, etc.— this depends on the type of study)

Although this subsection should cover all these items, it may be written in a narrative style.

Setting: Keeping in mind that this is a proposed setting, and it should not be recognizable for confidentiality and privacy reasons. It is a broad view of the setting. For example:

The proposed setting for this study is a large teaching hospital in the northeast. The actual place where the study would be carried out is in the three medical–surgical units in this hospital. Each unit has a bed capacity of 25–30 beds with occupancy rates of 92% to 95%. The study will take place in a private conference room.

Or, if a mailed questionnaire or survey is to be used:

The proposed setting for data collection will be by mailing the questionnaire to the homes of the subjects. The researcher would be mailing the questionnaires from home with a return-addressed, stamped envelope.

Informed Consent and Ethical Considerations: Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval will be obtained. The researcher will submit an application and proposal to the College IRB first. After approval from College, the institution where the study will take place usually requires IRB approval as well. The request or application may be one of three types:

Exempt from review: This is for studies with no intervention or may be just for a medical record review.

Expedited review: This is for minimal risk to subjects—physical or psychological.

Complete institutional review: This is for studies that may pose a risk to subjects.

Please address means of protecting human subjects, such as the use of pseudonyms for qualitative studies and the use of numbers to identify subjects in quantitative studies. Data storage must be addressed. Make certain that identifying data (informed consent document) is maintained in a locked file separate from de-identified data (demographics, surveys, transcripts) that also will be maintained in a locked file in the researcher’s locked office.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

 

 

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 9 Assignment  

Writing Your Literature Review Section

Overview

You will write your Literature Review Section of your EBP Project Proposal. Here is a Review of Literature Example (Word) to use as a model or guide. To conduct your literature review, you begin with the search strategy, gather your resources, then start writing your literature review and gap analysis.

Search Strategy

In the literature review section, you are to identify your search strategy, which can include the following:

the databases and internet sites or search engines used to explore the literature (CINAHL, Medline, Google, Yahoo, etc.)

the search terms you used

the beginning and ending dates of the period covered in this study

the time period when the search was conducted (e.g., Fall 2008)

any special journals hand-searched and any relevant sources used in performing the literature search

Description of Literature or Gaps in the Literature

The literature review section is a review of studies that are related to your phenomenon. It should take up about eight to ten pages, or approximately 3,000 to 4,000 words. The purpose is to tell the reader what is known about your phenomenon and lead the reader to what is not known about your phenomenon (your research problem). You should have sub-headings throughout this section of the paper.

The literature section discusses the relevant research related to your study. Do not discuss each study individually; instead, synthesize the literature based on your literature matrix. You can discuss individual findings of studies (include all eight studies that you described in your literature matrix in Weeks 4 and 9) as appropriate including the statistical findings and study samples. This section needs to tell the reader what is known about your clinical area of interest. You will also summarize your review of the literature and discuss the gaps you have identified.

Assignment Instructions

Your assignment should be:

Eight to ten pages, or approximately 3,000 to 4,000 words, no cover page required, and the page count doesn’t include the references list

Your search strategy

Description of articles (who, population, sample, what was done, statistical findings, limitations, and so on)

Gaps section: the gaps you have identified from your literature search

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 9 Assignment  

Complete Your Literature Review Matrix

Instructions

You began your literature review matrix in Week 4 Assignment 1: Start Your Literature Review Matrix, where you completed two articles for the matrix. Using the same document you submitted for the Week 4 Assignment, complete the matrix by adding six more articles and filling in each of the rows for each article that are directly related to your study that you are writing about in your Review of the Literature Section of your EBP Project Proposal.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 10 Assignment  

Your EBP Demographics Tool

Overview

As part of continuing your work on your EBP proposal, you create a demographics tool that you use to capture data on participants who will be part of your EBP project. Here is a Demographics Questionnaire (Word) example of a demographics tool section. Keep in mind that you should include only information that is important to include in data analysis and write-up. Asking extraneous questions is burdensome for participants; thus, your demographics questions need to be meaningful, relevant, and as brief as possible.

Assignment Instructions

Using a Word document, create a demographics tool that has a minimum of eight questions but a maximum of 20 questions.

Demographic Questionnaire

1. Are you male or female?

1. Male

2. Female

2. Do you consider yourself Hispanic or Latino/Latina?

1. Yes

2. No

3. What race do you consider yourself to be? Please select one or more of the following:

1. White

2. Black/African American

3. American Indian/Alaska Native

4. Asian

5. Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander

6. Some other race

(specify):  ___________________

4. What is your primary language?

1. English

2. Spanish

3. Some other language

(specify): ______________

5. What is your date of birth?

__ __ / __ __ / __ __ __ __ Mo Day Year

6. Which of the following educational credentials do you have (check all that apply):

a. A high school diploma

b. A GED certificate

c. An Associate’s degree

d. A technical credential or degree

e. A Bachelor’s degree

f. A Master’s degree

g. Another advanced degree

7. What is your current employment status?

1. Working for pay at a job or business

2. Looking for work, not currently employed

3. Not currently working and not looking for work

(Specify):________________

(Specify):________________

8. In 2006, what was your total family income from all sources? Was it:

1. Less than $25,000,

2. $25,000 to $49,999,

3. $50,000 to $100,000, or

4. More than $100.000?

9. What is your current marital status?

a.            Are you currently married or unmarried?

•             Married (SKIP TO b)

•             Unmarried  (SKIP TO c)

b.            If married, are you and your spouse currently living together or living separately?

•             Living together (SKIP OUT)

•             Living separately (SKIP TO e)

c.             If not married, have you ever been married?

•             Yes (SKIP TO d)

•             No (SKIP TO e)

d.            Are you widowed or divorced?

•             Widowed

•             Divorced

e.            Are you currently living with a partner, boyfriend, or girlfriend as married?

•             Yes

•             No

10. How many children do you have? (specify)

______ Biologic or adopted children

______ Step children

______ Foster children

11. How many children with muscular dystrophy do you have? (specify) ______________________

12. How old is/are your child/children with muscular dystrophy? (specify) ______________________

13. At what age was your child with muscular dystrophy first assessed by a primary care provider? (specify)

______________________

14. How much of the care, roughly, do you provide to your child with muscular dystrophy?

1. 0-24%

2. 25-49%

3. 50-74%

4. 75-99%

5. 100%

15. How would you rate your health?

1. Excellent

2. Very good

3. Good

4. Fair

5. Poor

16. Have you ever been diagnosed with one of the following disorders (select all that apply):

1. Bipolar disorder

2. Schizophrenia

3. Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

4. Physical addiction (alcohol, drugs)

5. None of the above

17. Does anyone in your family or household have an illness or disability that demands a lot of your attention and makes it hard for you to work or go to school?

1. Yes

2. No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 11 Assignment  

Which Tools Shall You Use?

Overview

As part of continuing your work on your evidence-based project proposal, identify between two and five peer-reviewed tools that have been validated and found reliable to measure change for your EBP proposal. These tools can include surveys or questionnaires that have been used in the literature to evaluate similar evidence-based practice projects. Many tools may be available to you depending on your topic. This assignment involves you searching the databases to learn about how your topic has been evaluated in the past.

Assignment Instructions

After you identify between two and five peer-reviewed tools, in a Word document, describe in 300 to 500 words why you have selected them and how you plan to use them in your proposal. Include the validity and reliability of the tools (which is found in journal articles). Submit the names of the tools along with your 300- to 500-word justification and ensure that you use APA format.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 12 Assignment  

Critiquing a Quantitative Research Study

Overview

You will be writing a quantitative critique on one of the studies provided. You will critically appraise the study in a paper.

Choose One of the Following Quantitative Journal Articles:

da Silva João, A. L., & Saldanha Portelada, A. F. (2019). Mobbing and its Impact on interpersonal relationships at the workplace. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(13), 2797–2812.

Dokun-Mowete, C. A., Sharma, M., & Beatty, F. (2019). Using Multitheory Model to Predict Low-salt Intake Among Nigerian Adults Living with Hypertension. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 39(4), 245–255.

Kashyap, N., Krishnan, N., Kaur, S., & Ghai, S. (2019). Risk Factors of Cervical Cancer: A Case-Control Study. Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 6(3), 308–314.

Assignment Instructions

Read your selected journal article entirely.

Analyze the journal article and use the specific questions that are outlined in Gray, Grove, and Sutherland (2017) found on pages 445 through 449 to construct your analysis of your chosen qualitative research study.

These are the main headers of your paper:

Identifying the Steps of the Quantitative Research Process

Determination of Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative Studies

Evaluating a Quantitative Study

You have many questions to address in your assignment this week. They should be in complete sentences (i.e., bullet point responses are not acceptable).

APA format is required. Page length, excluding the title and references list, is between five and seven pages.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 13 Assignment  

Critiquing a Qualitative Research Study

Overview

For this assignment, you write your own qualitative study critique (similar to what you did in Week 12 for the quantitative study critique, only this time critiquing a qualitative research study) on one of the studies provided to you.

Choose one qualitative journal article from this list:

Biezen, R., Grando, D., Mazza, D., & Brijnath, B. (2019). Visibility and transmission: complexities around promoting hand hygiene in young children: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 19(1), no pages.

da Silva Lins, H. N., Macêdo Paiva, L. K., Gonçalves de Souza, M., Cassimiro Lima, R. M., & Albuquerque, N. L. A. (2019). Experiences in women’s care: Doulas’ perception. Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 13(5), 1264–1269.

Mele, B., Goodarzi, Z., Hanson, H. M., & Holroyd-Leduc, J. (2019). Barriers and facilitators to diagnosing and managing apathy in Parkinson’s disease: A qualitative study. BMC Neurology, 19(1), no pages.

Assignment Instructions

Read your selected journal article entirely.

Analyze the journal article and use the specific questions that are outlined in Gray, Grove, and Sutherland (2017) found on pages 445 through 449 to construct your analysis of your chosen qualitative research study.

These are the main headers of your paper:

Identifying the Steps of the Qualitative Research Process

Determination of Strengths and Weaknesses of Qualitative Studies

Evaluating a Qualitative Study

You have many questions to address in your assignment this week. They should be in complete sentences (i.e., bullet point responses are not acceptable).

APA format is required in your assignment Word document. Page length, excluding the title and references list, is between five and seven pages.

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 15 Assignment  

EBP Grant Proposal

Instructions

For this assignment, incorporate all of the work you have done for your EBP project in the course and write a grant proposal for The Daisy Foundation. (Note: you do not actually submit the application; rather, just complete the assignment for this course.) This grant proposal is similar to other grants that you might submit in the future.

Review the grant information: J. Patrick Barnes Grants: Grant Types.

Review the grant application form: Evidence-Based Practice Grant Application Form.

Include the following in your assignment:

Purpose of the Project

Background

EBP Model (remember, you are using the IOWA model for this project)

Proposed Change

Outcomes

Evaluation Plan

Dissemination Plan (journal articles you would want to write in—refer to Week 15 for journal information) and rationale

Appendices

Informed Consent Template (from Week 7; you should have made revisions based on faculty feedback and submit the revised form for this assignment)

Human Subjects Research Training Certificate (from Week 7 after you have made edits based on faculty feedback)

Literature Matrix (from Week 9; you should have made revisions based on faculty feedback and submit the revised form for this assignment)

Description of Tools and Instruments you plan to use for your EBP proposal (from Week 11; you should have made revisions based on faculty feedback and submit the revised form for this assignment) including aspects such as: name, author, number of questions, validity and reliability, and how it is administered (self, clinician, or researcher administered)

 

NU631 Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice

Week 16 Assignment  

The Funding Dilemma

Instructions

Generate a PowerPoint presentation about your EBP project grant proposal. Imagine you are meeting with a grant funding agency and you need to sell them your project and why it is important. Refer to the instructions on how to generate an audiovisual presentation. This recording should be a minimum of five minutes long and not exceed 15 minutes.

To record your video, use Zoom, Skype, or your personal preference and follow these create an unlisted YouTube video instructions:

For this assignment, submit your YouTube video url. The best way to do this is to copy and paste the hyperlink url for the YouTube video into a Word document. Your faculty will access your video via the link.

Do not upload a video file (mp4).

Please include the following in your presentation:

Introduce yourself

Title

Background

Purpose

Gaps that your project aims to address

Proposed project methodology (i.e., research method, research design, sampling method, participant recruitment, and so on)

Significance to the field of nursing

Innovation

Describe why your proposal should be funded (assume there is only one grant available)

Follow APA and grammatical/punctuation expectations throughout the presentation.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.