Integrative Review of the Literature

The attached document is a compilation of assignements leading up to the final. This information is vital to the assignment. Below are the guidelines for this assignment.

Prompt

Choose a
professional practice issue of local, state, or national importance, with your
instructors approval, that might be encountered in nursing practice. For this
assessment, prepare a scholarly integrative review of the literature that will
support a recommendation for a practice change to solve or improve the
identified professional practice issue. To cover the appropriate range of the
research, you should search for and retrieve six current and relevant nursing
research studies from primary sources that are relevant to your clinical topic
of interest (these should be the articles from your annotated bibliography).
Follow the assignment guidelines below to prepare a scholarly integrative
review of the research literature you retrieved.

Specifically, your
integrative review of the literature should include the following critical
elements:

I. Abstract: Include
an abstract at the beginning of your paper that summarizes each of the
following elements:
A. Purpose and
research question
B. Background
C. Methods
D. Results
E. Conclusions
F. Relevance to
clinical practice

II. Introduction
A. What is the
purpose of the integrative review?
B. Clearly
articulate the topic of interest, problem statement, and the research question
being studied.
C. What variables of
interest (such as concepts, target population, setting, interventions, etc.)
will be used to guide the review of literature?
D. Discuss the
background and significance of the problem to nursing. Be sure to substantiate
your claims with specific examples from your research.

III. Literature
Search Methods
A. Identify
keywords, and combinations of keywords used in the initial search.
B. Which databases
were searched?
C. State the
inclusion and exclusion criteria for the sample of research reports. In other
words, how did you make decisions to narrow the search and focus the literature
review? How was the final sample of research reports determined?

IV. Data Analysis
and Critical Appraisal
A. Analyze the
quality of each study. In other words, is the problem well formulated and the
purpose of the study clear? Is the study approach well designed and executed?
Does the study demonstrate understanding of related studies? Do the findings
advance knowledge?
B. Note each studys
strengths and limitations.
C. Identify gaps in
the literature and reflect on why these may exist.
D. Identify
similarities and inconsistencies across the studies.

V. Synthesis and
Interpretation Results
A. Identify major
trends or patterns in the research reviewed.
B. Can you make
generalizations across the studies? Why or why not?
C. What conclusions
can you draw? Be sure to use a logical chain of evidence to support them. D.
Make practice recommendations based on the research reviewed.

VI. Conclusions
A. Identify the
limitations of your literature review.
B. Discuss the
relevance of the results of your literature review to clinical practice.
C. Discuss the
implications of your recommended practice change on future nursing practice. D.
Evaluate how your recommended practice change can influence future research.

VII. Appendix:
Provide an appendix at the end of your paper that includes the following
elements:
G. Search method
flow chart
H. Evidence Table

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