Evidence-Based Practice Issue Assignment
Conduct a literature review on a nursing topic that
interests you. The issue should pertain to your area of interest in nursing.
Prepare a paper utilizing the following resources:
The Herzing University Librarians will assist you with your
search. Please make an appointment with
one of our Librarians prior to the due date.
The Herzing Writing Center will assist you with providing
feedback for writing the paper. Please make an appointment with one of our
writing specialist prior to your due date.
The following resource may be helpful:
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/
Follow APA format. Utilize the APA Manual 6th edition or
Purdue OWL website. Title page and
reference page required. Paper should be 3-5 pages not including title page and
reference page. You must use at least 5 scholarly resources and provide in text
citations and include reference page.
The following headings will assist you to organize your
paper(see descriptions after headings):
Introduction
Literature review
Implications to Nursing and/or Healthcare
Recommendations
Conclusion
Description of headings:
Introduction – Include your selected topic and how this
topic applies to your clinical interest/practice. Please do not use the first person as this is
a scholarly paper.
Literature Review- This is the bulk of the paper. Provide a
summary of your literature review comparing and contrasting at least 5 articles
you found on the nursing topic of interest(may use Annotated Bibliography if
relevant). Include how you went about finding the literature. What data bases
did you use? How many articles did you find? How did you narrow your search?
Implications to Nursing and/or Healthcare – Why is this
issue important? How does it affect the population as a whole?
Recommendations -Did the literature provide sufficient
information for this issue? If not, what was lacking? What further research
needs to be done? Develop a plan on how you could help implement this EBP
guideline.
Conclusion – Summarizes main points of the paper.
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