Nursing Literature Review

Nursing Literature Review

Description of the Assignment:

This assignment will allow you to further investigate a research topic of interest to you. First, you will work to develop a research question. Once the question has been finalized, you will be asked to conduct a thorough review of the literature. This will include searching a variety of databases using keywords as discussed in class. Your findings will be summarized and presented in a final manuscript. Below you will find further details of what is expected in the final draft of this assignment.

• Use primary sources to identify 5-10 relevant articles on your topic
• Articles should be recent, within the past 5 years
• Your summary of the topic should include the following:

Nursing Literature Review

◦ Introduction to the scope of the problem

◦ What is known about the phenomenon of interest

◦ Identify gaps in the literature

◦ Discuss the need for further research

Check tips on how to complete your Literature Review.

This is an individual assignment. Each student will be asked to submit a paper of 4 pages in length. Draft and final versions are due as per the schedule. Your draft will receive feedback from the course instructor and a group of assigned peers from the course. Once you receive feedback for the initial draft, you will be expected to edit your paper and submit the final product by the due date according to the schedule.

You may also find samples in your textbook appendices.

Nursing Literature Review

Book: Polit, D. & Beck, C. (2021). Nursing Research, Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, (11thed.) Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN-13: 978-1975110642 or ISBN-10 19751106419781433832154, 1433832151

Directions: After completing your draft version of the paper, please upload a copy of the paper as a reply post to Discussion #1. Use the feedback you receive from your peers to help you edit the paper before completing the final version and (if possible) before submitting the draft version to your instructor. Submit the draft version here for your instructor to review. They will use the same rubric to review it that they will use for the final version of the assignment. However, this version of the rubric is ungraded. Using an ungraded rubric will show you what the points would be but will not give you a grade only provide you with feedback using the rubric. This assignment is a complete/incomplete score, but it is a critical part of your final grade for the paper as it allows you to improve the material before turning it in.