Conduct a literature review on a nursing topic that interests you. The review should present evidence supporting the identified solution of the PICOT to the problem you selected in Week 2. The issue should pertain to your area of interest in nursing. Prepare a paper utilizing the following resources:

The following headings will assist you to organize your paper(see descriptions after headings):

• Introduction
• Literature review
• Implications to Nursing and/or Health care
• Recommendations
• Conclusion

Description of headings:

• Introduction - Include your selected topic and how this topic applies to your clinical interest/practice. Please do not use the first person as this is a scholarly paper.
• Literature Review- This is the bulk of the paper. Provide a summary of your literature review comparing and contrasting at least 5 articles you found on the solution suggested in Week 2. o.Include how you went about finding the literature. What data bases did you use? How many articles did you find? How did you narrow your search?
• Implications to Nursing and/or Health care - Why is this issue important? How does it affect the population as a whole? 
• Recommendations -Did the literature provide sufficient information for this issue? If not, what was lacking? What further research needs to be done? Develop a plan on how you could help implement this EBP guideline.
• Conclusion - Summarizes main points of the paper.
• The following resource may be helpful: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/
• Follow APA format. Utilize the APA Manual 6th edition or Purdue OWL website.  Title page and reference page required. Paper should be 3-5 pages not including title page and reference page. You must use at least 5 scholarly resources and provide in text citations and include a reference page.

 

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Course Outcomes:

• Develop a proposal for a project that will resolve a problem in a professional work area.
• Apply critical thinking when relating nursing research to practice.
• Articulate the role of nursing research within clinical practice, and explore the components of the research process.
• Recognize the value and relevance of research in nursing to the development of one's own professional practice and to the quality of patient care.

See rubric for grading criteria.

Assignment will be submitted to Safe Assign. Safe assign report must be 25% or less.