NR+221

=**NR 221: Professional Nursing for the LPN**=

//Assignment://

 * Nursing uses research to educate ourselves and our patients. Nursing responsibility is to determine which research is valid and also where areas of nursing research can be further developed. This is a lifelong learning process.
 * In order to develop this skill, you will be finding three (3) research articles. These articles must be taken from nursing journals.
 * You will write three (3) annotations (see guidelines below), one for each article citation. Your citations must be written in APA style.
 * This assignment is due by May 27, 2011 and must be turned in to your instructor in PC 236 by 4:00.

Recommended databases:

 * =====CINAHL - Tutorials: Basic Searching in CINAHL, Advanced Searching in CINAHL =====
 * search by keywords, or check box to "Suggest Subject Terms"
 * apply these limits for best results:
 * Publication year
 * English language
 * Research article
 * Any author is a nurse (limits results to 2009-present)
 * Journal Subset: Core Nursing
 * =====PubMed - Publicly available index; use Ursuline library's link to easily connect to full text =====
 * Click "Limits" above the search box:
 * English language
 * Dates: Published in the last 5 years
 * Journal group: Nursing journals
 * =====Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - online Evidence-Based information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serivces. In the navigation bar, click the link for Nursing Resarch.=====
 * If you have a citation for an article and you want to see if Ursuline Library has the full text, use Journal Finder.

General advice & information about research using online databases:

 * Use specific subject terms (also called subject terms, MeSH headings, etc.). These are terms assigned by people rather than just keywords found by the computer, so they facilitate more precise searching.
 * Try several key words and search terms in at least two databases
 * Think about your topic to determine broader subject words and related topics (example: patient is recovering from hip replacement surgery, but articles relating to other surgical recovery care issues, including infection control and pain management, may contain relevant information).
 * Use limiters (called "Search Options" in CINAHL) to narrow your result list to scholarly research articles in nursing journals; the databases typically include many types of resources (trade and professional publications, newsletters, conference papers, etc.).
 * Understand what you are looking for! These two brief videos will help:
 * Peer Review in 5 Minutes
 * Introduction to Literature Reviews
 * @How to read a research article

Writing an Annotated Bibliography:

 * ===Know the lingo:===
 * **Bibliography**: a list of sources (books, articles, etc.)
 * **Citation**: one item on a bibliography or works cited list; citations are listed in a uniform way, following a specific citation style (APA)
 * **Annotation**: information about a source that may include a summary, evaluation, and/or other qualitative description as specified by your instructor.
 * ** APA formatting guides online: **
 * OWL at Purdue website
 * Use **//Cite//** link in CINAHL - click the title of the article from your result list to view the full record, look for "Cite" in the list of tools on the right
 * ===Guidelines for your assignment:===
 * **Comment in paragraph form on the following:**
 * **Content**: what is the article/resource about? How does the content reflect key professional nursing concepts (critical thinking, communication, caring, collaboration, ethics, health care economics, nurse as educator, mentor, or motivator)?
 * **Purpose**: why was it written?
 * **Methods used to collect data**: how was the research conducted?
 * **Usefulness**: how is it relevant to your research?
 * **Authority**: what are the author(s)' credentials?
 * **Currency**: is it new? is it up-to-date for the topic?
 * **Scope/Coverage/Limitations**: what does it cover? does the author provide recommendations for further research?
 * **Example:**