NURS 6003 Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 3: Research Analysis
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 3: Research Analysis
I have identified one topic of interest for further study. I have researched and identified one peer-reviewed research article focused on this topic and have analyzed this article. The results of these efforts are shared below.
Directions: Complete Step 1 by using the table and subsequent space below identify and analyze the research article you have selected. Complete Step 2 by summarizing in 2-3 paragraphs the results of your analysis using the space identified.
The 2010 IOM report had four key messages or recommendations for nurses to position themselves strategically in healthcare provision. Firstly, the report stresses the need for nurses to practice to the fullest level of their education and training without any hindrances imposed by state boards of nursing. The message influences nursing practice as it means that nurses should be barred from practicing what they have trained on in different specialties (Price & Reichert, 2018). Secondly, the report asserted that nurses should engage in lifelong learning to acquire higher levels of education and training based on a better education system. The message means that the nursing practice requires professional nurses to engage in continual professional development to attain the latest skills and knowledge in healthcare provision, especially the deployment of technology.
Step 1: Research Analysis
Peer-reviewed research articles are scrutinized by other authors who are experts in that field. The peer-review process ensures that the
article offers a credible form of scientific communication. It seeks to motivate authors to attain the accepted high standards of their discipline and limit the dissemination of research data. This ensures that unjustifiable claims, unacceptable interpretations, or personal opinions are not published without expert review. The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a peer-reviewed article related to my topic of interest and explain the approach I use to identify and analyze peer-reviewed research.
Complete the table below
| Topic of Interest: | Mental Health Illiteracy and Stigma | |||
| Research Article:Include full citation in APA format, as well as link or search details (such as DOI) | Lopez, V., Sanchez, K., Killian, M. O., & Eghaneyan, B. H. (2018). Depression screening and education: an examination of mental health literacy and stigma in a sample of Hispanic women. BMC public health, 18(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5516-4
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One or more professional practice uses of the theories/concepts presented in the article |
The concept of mental health illiteracy and stigma can be applied professionally to examine the mental health literacy of patients in the healthcare setting. Understanding patients’ literacy levels can enhance the quality of care through early detection of symptoms, providing culturally effective education and encouraging them to engage in mental health treatment. |
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| Research Analysis Matrix
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Strengths of the Research | Limitations of the Research | Relevancy to Topic of Interest | Notes |
| The study used an adequate number of participants, and thus can be generalized among Hispanic women.
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The study did not use a control group, which brings the possibility of selection bias. | The study is relevant to my topic of interest since it examines the specific role of patient education level as a predictor of mental health literacy. | Using a control group would have reduced the possibility of bias. | |
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The researchers utilized a universal screening tool, PHQ-9, to screen depression among the participants.
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The study’s participants consisted of only Hispanic women and are, which limit its generalizability to individuals from other ethnicities.
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The study established that the more a participant understood depression and its symptoms, the less likely they were to experience stigma about accessing mental health care services | Mental health literacy can mitigate the adverse impact of stigma on care seeking. | |
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The study also employed various validated tools to assess depression stigma including the Stigma Concerns About Mental Health Care Measure (SCMHC), the Social Distance Measure (Social Distance) and Latino Scale for Antidepressant Stigma Measure. |
The study’s participants were primarily Spanish-speaking. Consequently, the study did not examine the differences in mental health literacy and stigma between Spanish- and English-speaking subjects.
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The more a person knows about depression the more likely they were to engage with a person who has been treated for depression. | Mental health literacy varies by education level. Higher education results in higher mental health literacy. | |
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Self-reports were sued to screen participants for depression, which brings the possibility of reporting bias. | The study findings supported the hypothesis that disease literacy is a vital component to treatment engagement. | Mental health literacy can be improved by assessing education level and culturally relevant care. | |
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The study establishes that early assessment of patients’ education level can be beneficial at the point of care since it provides insight into intervention options and reduce barriers associated with mental health treatment. | |||
I would recommend the article by Lopez et al. (2018) to inform professional practice since it meets the CARP criteria. The article is current since it was published three years ago. It also has functional links. The authors are university professors teaching mental health and social work and are thus qualified to write about the topic of mental health illiteracy and stigma. Besides, the article was published by BMC Public Health, which focuses on the social determinants of health, the behavioral, environmental, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health practices, interventions, and policies, on the community. In addition, the article is relevant to the topic of interest since it evaluates the specific role of patient education level as a predictor of mental health literacy. The article is intended for healthcare professionals providing mental health. I would thus recommend it for professional practice. Furthermore, the authors provide references and sources of the information used, making it reliable. The authors provide factual information and purpose to inform mental health providers how to mitigate mental health stigma. Lastly, the authors have no biases, which makes the article suitable as a professional guide.
Step 2: Summary of Analysis
Craft a summary (2-3 paragraph) below that includes the following:
- Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research
- Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research
- Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research
Approach to Identifying and Analyzing Peer-Reviewed Research
When identifying and analyzing a peer-reviewed article, I scrutinize if the article meets the following criteria: Published in a scholarly journal; Has an abstract on the first page; Is organized by headings such as introduction, literature review, methods, and findings; Has citations throughout the text and a reference lists at the end; Has credentials of the authors that are affiliated with a university or research institute (Kulczycki et al., 2019). In addition, I analyze an article by assessing if the article’s topic is narrowly focused and explored in depth. I analyze whether the article has a specific focus on contributing new, original research in a narrow area of the subject. Furthermore, I look at the language of the article. Peer-reviewed research should use technical and formal language and contain complex ideas and arguments, an objective tone, and an analytical perspective (Kulczycki et al., 2019). Lastly, I assess whether the article has a plain appearance with minimal use of colored, graphics and images.
Strategies That I Found Effective in Finding Peer-Reviewed Research
Some strategies that I found effective in finding peer-reviewed research include using the library’s research databases and limiting the search to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles (López-Cózar et al., 2019). The databases have a feature for peer review limiter option, which limits the retrieved articles to only peer-reviewed journals. Another strategy is using Google Scholar where one can search an article by title or author. Google Scholar enables one to search diverse sources from one site (López-Cózar et al., 2019). It also helps to retrieve articles, books, theses, and abstracts.
I purpose to use the PubMed database to retrieve peer-reviewed research. Journals in PubMed are peer-reviewed and are relevant to my area of study since it contains journals on health, biomedicine and, related disciplines (Kang et al., 2021). PubMed is also suitable because it allows one to search across various NLM literature resources, such as PubMed Central (PMC), MEDLINE, and Bookshelf.
Conclusion
Peer review helps to ensure that scientific journals answer significant research questions and come to accurate conclusions based on professional experiments. An article can be considered appropriate for professional practice if it meets the CARP test, including currency, authority, relevance/reliability, and purpose. My approach to analyzing a peer-reviewed article includes looking at the publisher, abstract, citations, references, authors’ credentials, topic focus, and appearance. One can find peer-reviewed articles by limiting the search to peer-reviewed in the library databases and using Google Scholar.
References
Kang, P., Kalloniatis, M., & Doig, G. S. (2021). Using Updated PubMed: New Features and Functions to Enhance Literature Searches. JAMA, 326(6), 479-480. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.12021
Kharasch, E. D., Avram, M. J., Clark, J. D., Davidson, A. J., Houle, T. T., Levy, J. H., … & Vutskits, L. (2021). Peer review matters: research quality and the public trust. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000003608
Kulczycki, E., Rozkosz, E. A., Engels, T. C., Guns, R., Hołowiecki, M., & Pölönen, J. (2019). How to identify peer-reviewed publications: Open-identity labels in scholarly book publishing. Plos one, 14(3), e0214423. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214423
López-Cózar, E. D., Orduña-Malea, E., & Martín-Martín, A. (2019). Google Scholar as a data source for research assessment. In Springer handbook of science and technology indicators (pp. 95-127). Springer, Cham.
The emergency section of a health facility is one of the most critical areas that address urgent care needs of patients. Despite having staff from different specialties, nurses are the most professionals found in the emergency departments of care facilities. Notably, due to nurse shortage across most health facilities, focus has been made to allow the professionals to work in shifts to balance care services to patients (Svirsko et al., 2019). However, scheduling nurses in an emergency department is a daunting task and time-consuming to leadership in a health organization. Being able to balance shift hours in order to achieve sufficient nurse-staffing levels at the emergency department requires the implementation of a mathematical model to satisfy preferences of nurses in this section. The present excerpt delves into how mathematical modeling can be used to improve nurse-scheduling process at the emergency department of care facilities. It also uses a template to provide a comprehensive approach in the identification and analysis of peer-reviewed research required for evidence-based practice.
Step 1: Research Analysis
Complete the table below
| Topic of Interest: | Using Mathematical Modeling to Improve the Emergency Department Nurse-Scheduling Process | |||
| Research Article: Include full citation in APA format, as well as link or search details (such as DOI) | Svirsko, A. C., Norman, B. A., Rausch, D., & Woodring, J. (2019). Using mathematical modeling to improve the emergency department nurse-scheduling process. Journal of emergency nursing, 45(4), 425-432.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2019.01.013
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| Professional Practice Use:
One or more professional practice uses of the theories/concepts presented in the article |
Mathematical modeling can be used to satisfy the preference of nurses based on shift hours allocated. The approach uses a self-scheduling process so that nurses can select day or night shifts based on their preferences. However, to ensure that nurses attend all shifts, a cycle of rotation is made weekly so that those nurses scheduled for night shift in one week take day shifts in the following week.
The concept of modeling serves to address time at the emergency department. Implementation of the nursing shift patterns as defined by a mathematical formula decreases the time needed by leadership to reconcile monthly schedule in a health facility. Therefore, sufficient time will be allocated for care at the emergency department and not used to solve conflicts arising due to unbalanced shift hours among nurses. |
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| Research Analysis Matrix
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Strengths of the Research | Limitations of the Research | Relevancy to Topic of Interest | Notes |
| It is based on detailed analysis of the concept of mathematical modeling and therefore enhances clarity for better understanding.
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No randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted on this research which means the article relies on meta-analysis for information. This means data is limited in this research. | The topic will help me identify a formula for mathematical modeling that can effectively be used to allocate shifts to nurses throughout the day and for night schedules. | Additional studies on how mathematical modeling improved nurse-staffing levels. | |
| Formulation of a mathematical model for scheduling nurse shift hours promotes harmony as it reconciles duty allocation. | Study does not clarify specific area where the concepts has been applied to warrant its adoption in emergency departments. | Topic is instrumental in identifying methods that nurse leaders can use to increase satisfaction of nurses at the emergency department of a care facility. | Further research on how application of mathematical modeling concept in shift scheduling reduces nurse burnout to optimize care at the emergency department. | |
I would recommend this article for use to inform decision on professional practice at the emergency department of care facilities. This is because the article was published in 2019 and therefore it is relevant for present health practice (Lefebvre et al., 2019). Nonetheless, information present in the material relate with my areas of interest a family nurse practitioner with a specific interest in the emergency care. Notably, findings from the publication provides information to leadership of health organizations on the necessity of scheduling shift days and nights for nurses in ways that guarantee satisfaction for the professionals (Tricco et al., 2018). While this article was intended for emergency department, I would recommend it in all other departments because of its necessity to address shift hours which is always a bone of contention in most care facilities occasioned by shortage of health staff.
Grover, S., Sarkar, S., & Sahoo, S. (2022). Ethics in psychiatric research. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 64(7), 68. https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_49_21
The database that I used to search for the article in the Walden Library is the “Academic Search Complete” database. This database is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database that provides a broad range of academic journals, magazines, and other resources that cover various disciplines such as health sciences, nursing, psychology, and sociology.
While searching for the article, I was fine. The search function is user-friendly and easy to navigate. I could enter relevant keywords related to my practice area and interests, and the database provided a list of relevant articles that matched my search criteria. The articles were also ranked by relevance, making it easy to find the most relevant articles.
This database would be useful to my colleagues. The database provides various academic journals, magazines, and other resources that cover various disciplines. This means it would be useful to colleagues in different fields, such as health sciences, nursing, psychology, and sociology. Additionally, the database is easy to navigate and search, making it a useful tool for finding relevant articles quickly.
I recommend this database to my colleagues. The database provides various academic journals, magazines, and other resources that cover various disciplines. Additionally, the search function is user-friendly and easy to navigate, making it a useful tool for finding relevant articles quickly. The articles are also ranked by relevance, making it easy to find the most relevant articles. Furthermore, the database is updated regularly, which means it is a reliable source for finding the most recent research in various fields.
References
Kott, L. (2022, August 17). LibGuides: Research 101: Boolean Operators. Libguides.sdstate.edu. https://libguides.sdstate.edu/c.php?g=842619&p=6053289
Maps, L. U. L. S. S. map: G. (2018, February 26). Directory of Open Access Journals. Www.landportal.org. https://www.landportal.org/es/organization/directory-open-access-journals