Assignment: Nursing Study Article
Assignment: Nursing Study Article
Assignment: Nursing Study Article
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Plan for exactly 20 Power Point slides for the presentation. Last slide should not be a
reference slide. Info will appear on the first slide. Be sure to use bullets for key
information. Do not write out sentences on the slide.
You should use photos and/or graphs to enhance your presentation. You should have
exactly 20 slides. Select words carefully. Bullet information. Presentation should be
visually appealing, as well as scholarly.
Search CINAHL for a research study published in a nursing journal (2010-present) that
has patients and/or families as participants in the study. Choose one quantitative nursing
study that is useful to your practice area to examine closely and critique. Be sure the
study is one that is easy to read and understand. Do not choose a psychometric testing of
an instrument article or a critical review article.
IMPORTANT: The PDF of the nursing study article is to be posted in the Discussion
area for my approval. No duplicates are permitted so that each presentation will be
unique.
Power Point Slides
1. Title Slide – Identify the title of the article Also include your name and credentials,
NURS 350 and date. On the bottom half of the slide, using APA format, insert a text box
and cite the complete reference in a smaller font (size 14 or 16).
2. Identify the author(s) full names, credentials and affiliation. Are all of the authors nurses
or are other disciplines represented?
3. Describe why you have chosen this study to present.
4. Quote the aim/purpose and cite the page number.
5. Identify the sample size.
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6. Provide a description of Sample (describe the actual participants, not the
inclusion/exclusion criteria)
7. Identify the instruments used in the study. Describe each regarding: what is measures, the
number of questions, the Likert scaling used, names of any subscales, the meaning of a
high score or low score.
8. Describe the protection of participants (e.g. IRB approval, informed consent, etc.).
9. Describe how the data was collected (how and where participants were contacted and the
data collected)
10. Identify the number of tables and describe what each table presents.
11. Identify how the data was analyzed (e.g. Independent or Paired t-Test, Pearson
Correlations, ANOVA, Multiple Regression, etc.)
12. Describe the research findings in words. Do not report numbers, mean scores, etc. (at
least three slides)
13. Describe how you could use the results in your nursing practice.
14. Identify at least one weakness of the study that you see and describe why (not the
author’s statement of limitations).
15. Provide your overall opinion of the study. Support statements with information from your
research book.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
