BJ week 5

NU 700: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Full Faculty’s Name and Credentials

Month date, year

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TIP: (be more specific using the problem you have identified and your clinical setting when creating the purpose statement).

Provide the name of the Unit 4 article and be sure that you are providing appropriate citations. Clearly identify and state the overarching problem within this article’s practice setting (Ex: The clinical practice problem identified within the article is…….). Provide an overview of the information contained within the selected article that supports the existence and significance of the problem. Including information such as participants/setting of the article and data or statistics adds credibility to the significance of the problem. A problem needs to be a real problem, or it is not worth addressing-prove there is a real problem. This section is only about a problem, not a diagnosis or an intervention.

**TIP: Only provide info from the initially selected article from Unit 4 and edits as suggested by the faculty.

Literature Review: Potential Intervention

Search current literature about the clinical practice problem and interventions that address the Unit 4 problem. Select ONE intervention that would be the best option to address the problem in YOUR CURRENT clinical practice setting (ex: Family Practice Clinic). Provide a sentence or two to explain what the intervention is. Then develop a literature review of the intervention, synthesizing three (3) sources of scholarly literature. The literature review should ideally compare/contrast the following topics among all the supporting literature validating the intervention as effective to address the clinical problem.

Organizing the review will help the writer compare and contrast all 3 articles. These are some ways you can compare and contrast the literature to capture all significant elements in the review:

Purpose of the Study

Settings/Participants or Population

Level of Evidence, Relevant Data, Statistics, or Themes

Outcomes/Findings

Limitations or Gaps in the Research

This is NOT a summary of individual articles and their findings on an intervention. It is the SYNTHESIS of all the articles into one literature review.

Example Literature Review: Simulation

Due to the multifaceted nature of healthcare, new nurses must be ready upon graduation to enter the workforce with well-developed clinical judgement, self-confidence, and psychomotor skills. Simulation was determined to be the best evidence-based intervention from the literature to address these requirements in a prelicensure nursing program. Three evidence-based articles are represented in this literature review to support the intervention of simulation-based learning in nursing education.

Ahn and Kim (2019) found in a quasi-experimental study of 69 participants that simulation improved learning outcomes and self-confidence by 26% when perception of the simulation scenario was viewed positively. Likewise, Kaddoura (2020) found in systematic review of literature from the past 10 years, that the safe learning environment of simulation contributes to nursing students’ critical thinking and confidence. Similar to Kaddoura (2020), Fisher and King (2017) conducted a qualitative survey of 25 senior nursing students and found themes to support that simulation improved the transfer of theoretical knowledge to clinical, enhanced confidence levels, and expanded clinical competencies necessary as a practice-ready nurse.

Go into more depth about the settings, participants, types of studies conducted, any data/analysis, and outcomes. This discussion should be approximately 3 paragraphs that compare and contrast the literature in this way regarding a single intervention. End this section with your thoughts and why you believe it is the best one for your clinical practice setting based on the literature review.

*TIP: Review these videos to help with developing a literature review.

***Bonus Tip: While there is no specific page requirement, an in-depth review of the clinical practice problem and supporting literature, along with the introduction & conclusion sections is suggested to be no less than 3 pages. With title and reference pages, a total of 5 pages minimum is suggested.

References

Make sure to include functioning doi/url links for retrieval that take the reader to the full article.

This paper should be supported by no less than 4 scholarly sources with citations/references.