Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is for the student to learn to assimilate, analyse, critique, and

summarise an original research article. Student is to select a report of a single, original study that

has been published within the last five years from the CCN Library.

COURSE OUTCOMES

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to meet the following course

outcomes:

CO1: Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO

7)

CO2: Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research

studies. (POs #4 and 8)

CO4: Evaluate published nursing research for credibility and lab significance related to

evidence-based practice. (POs #4 and 8)

CO5: Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (POs #7 and 8)

POINTS

The assignment is worth a total of 200 points.

DUE DATE

You are to submit your paper to the Week 6 Research Article Review Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m.

MT at the end of Week 6.

REQUIREMENTS

Through this assignment, the student will:

1. Conduct a systematic search of relevant databases to find research-based evidence related

to a nursing problem (CO 1); Student is to use the CCN library for search.

1. Critique a peer-reviewed study, indicating the research question, sample, design of study,

data collection method, findings, and limitations of each (CO 2, CO 4,)

1. Summarize the research article and evaluate the significance to nursing. (CO 3).
2. Please remember this assignment can be sent to Turning Week One draft box for review. If

you wait until late Sunday night to submit, you may not receive your feedback in time if you

need to make changes. Final submission must be in the Week 6 Assignment Dropbox and

student will not receive Turnitin results. Please read the announcement on the Turnitin

information.

1. Article must be from CCN Library and student is required to document working permalink to

article.

Instruction Files
NR439_Research_Article_Guidelines_200pt(1).docx