TRIF

Locate a nursing study that examines the effects of an intervention. Provide a summary of the study, focusing primarily on the intervention.

• Was the development and implementation of the intervention described in detail?
• Based on a theoretical framework?
• Did the design of the study promote investigation of the effects of the study---for example, was there comparison of experimental and control groups?
• Were there variables that could have impacted the findings that were not part of the intervention?
• Was there evidence of efforts to monitor the safety of participants?
• Are there any ways that the study could have been improved?

Locate a nursing study that utilizes some aspect of the internet (for instance, for recruitment, delivery of an intervention, or completing online assessments.

• What challenges did the researchers face, and how were these challenges overcome (or not)?
• How could future research efforts be improved?

Using your computer’s office tools, develop a pie, bar, or plot chart to represent the following population estimates:

Population 

Percentage

European American

20

African American

30

Native American

20

Hispanic American

30