I attached the article and the grading criteria for the critical analysis of an article.
Outline for Critical Analysis of the Research Paper
| Introduction 15 points | What is the overall purpose of the research? How does the research fit into the context of its field? Is it, for example, attempting to settle a controversy? Show the validity of a new technique? Open up a new field of inquiry? Do you agree with the author's rationale for studying the question in this way?
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| Methods 15 points | What research method was utilized (quantitative, qualitative)? Were the measurements appropriate for the questions the researcher was asking? Were the measures in this research clearly related to the variables in which the researchers (or you) were interested? If human subjects were studied, do they fairly represent the populations under study?
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| Results 15 points | What is the one major finding? Were enough of the data presented so that you feel you can judge for yourself how the experiment turned out? Did you see patterns or trends in the data that the author did not mention? Were there problems that were not addressed by the author?
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| Discussion 15 points | Do you agree with the conclusions drawn from the data? Are these conclusions over-generalized or appropriately careful? Are there other factors that could have influenced, or accounted for, the results? What further experiments would you think of, to continue the research or to answer remaining questions?
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| Nursing Implications 15 points | Discuss what you have learned from this research article and how evidence-based nursing impacts nursing practice. Include your strategies for utilizing this information as you go forward in the nursing practice environment. Describe how you can integrate the research findings to your patient that you have taken care this quarter
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| Over-all quality of student’s critical analysis of a research article 25 points | Use of correct grammar, APA format Synthesis of research paper (check this link: http://www.users.drew.edu/sjamieso/synthesis.htm )
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