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Module 3 Assignment: Review of Literature Assignment, Pinch Table

Submit by the due date and time listed in your syllabus and course schedule.

Overview

A Review of Literature is conducted to generate an understanding of what is known and not known about a topic of interest. You have identified a topic/problem in Module 1 Discussion Board – Research Problem. In this assignment, you will create Pinch Table of study articles as part of a Review of Literature (Chapter 3 and 7). Follow the guidelines in Gray, Grove, & Sutherland (2017) Chapter 7 & 18 related to the Review of Literature. You will share your findings using a PINCH table.

Submitting your assignment

• Save this document to your desktop as a Word document.

• Open the document from your desktop and review the assignment instructions and grading rubric.

• Create a separate Word document for your paper using the PINCH table template provided.

• Return to Blackboard and upload your paper to the assignment link in Module 3. Submit a second submission including the four articles used in the table in pdf format also.

Instructions for Completing Your Assignment

Step one: Chose the topic, identify a nursing clinical practice problem that you would like to explore. Using the information that you discussed in Module 1 Discussion- Research Problem, briefly discuss the significance and identify the gap in the literature. (Why do you need to study this problem?)

Step two: Complete the readings from Module 1, 2 & 3, focusing on Chapter 7 Stages of a Literature Review pp.126-134, and 18.

Step three: Search for at least FOUR nursing research articles that relate to your clinical problem using Academic Search Complete, CINHAL, Pubmed, Google Scholar, or any other database that contains nursing research articles.

• Your studies must be quantitative research articles (for example: quantitative descriptive, correlational or quasi-experimental or experimental designs). At least two studies must be prospective (data actually collected at the time of the study). The other two may be retrospective or prospective. Your studies may NOT be a qualitative study, a quality improvement study, a systematic review, meta-synthesis, meta-analysis, meta-summary, or integrative review. The article should not be a general information article without the elements of a study (e.g.: must include a review of literature and a methods section with results and discussion).

• Studies/ articles must be current, within 5 years.

• Include a References page; citations are to be written in APA format.

The articles you will find must meet the following mandatory requirements noted in Chapter 3 (Types of Quantitative Research).

Step four: Find the elements in your articles that are named in the PINCH table and type them into your table. Be sure to note anything of interest in the article outside of the required elements and add them to the notes column for use in your synthesis assignment next week.

Step five: If you have questions about your paper, post them to the Q & A discussion board for feedback from your peers / instructor.

Step six: Write up your findings in the template and submit them to Blackboard by the due date and time listed in your syllabus. Here’s how to write up your findings:

• • This is to be submitted in the table format provided.

  • Complete sentences are not necessary, but the information must be clear on the template of what information belongs to which article in order to grade (without question). In other words, separate the articles in the table.

  • Don’t forget to use the group discussion board for additional questions about your paper.

  • Turn your paper (docx format only) and the four articles (PDF format only) in to the assignment submission link under the Assignments Tab in Module 3 at the due date and time listed in your syllabus.

  • Possible points for this assignment: 100 points