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Research Article Critique. Compassion fatigue, burnout, among oncology nurses in the United States

Question description

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment completed as an APA Paper is for the student to learn to examine, analyze, critique, and summarize an original research article.

Course Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to meet the following course outcomes:

CO1: Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO7)

CO2: Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (POs 4 and 8)

CO4: Evaluate published nursing research for credibility and lab significance related to evidence-based practice. (POs 4 and 8)

CO5: Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (POs 7 and 8)

Points

The assignment is worth a total of 175 points.

Due Date

You are to submit your paper by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 6.

Requirements

Through this assignment, the student will:

  1. Critique the required article found below and in your own words, describe the research question, sample, design of study, data collection method, findings, and limitations of each. (CO 1, CO2,)
  2. Summarize the research article and evaluate the significance to nursing. Do not just quote the author’s words. Paraphrase the information. (CO 4, CO5).

You are required to use the assignment specific item(s) (article/systematic review/topic/form/templates) or you will earn a “0” for the assignment. In addition, assignments that do not follow the current guidelines or use the required item, as defined above, will be evaluated for evidence of an academic integrity violation.

After the due date, there will be no opportunity for revision or resubmission of assignments that have been uploaded to the submission area. This includes blank, incomplete, incorrect file, and/or incorrect file format documents. It is your responsibility to submit the correct completed assignment in the correct format to the correct submission area. Your last submission before the due date will be graded. You may not resubmit after the due date with a different file and incur a late deduction per the Late Assignment policy.

Guidelines to Writing the Paper

  1. This assignment is completed as an APA paper. APA resources can be found on the Course Resources Module. You are required to complete the paper using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
  2. Download the required article for analysis:

Wu, S., Singh-Carlson, S., Odell, A., Reynolds, G., & Yuhua, S. (2016). Compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among oncology nurses in the United States and Canada. Oncology Nursing Forum, 43(4), E161-E169. doi:10.1188/16.ONF.E161-E169

https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=c9h&AN=116230076&site=eds-live&scope=site (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

  1. Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
    1. Provide a brief description of the research article to be discussed.
    2. Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to the research article reviewed and the implications that it has to evidence based nursing practice.
    3. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Describe the research question for this study in a paragraph.
  1. Describe the research in greater detail.
  2. Include your observations about this question.
  3. Discuss events or trends that could have affected this question.
  4. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Describe the research design of this study, and in your own words discuss the design.
    1. Discuss the research design of the study.
    2. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the type of design and hypothesize why the author utilized the design as opposed to others.
    3. You will need to summarize the information from the article in your own words
  2. Describe the sample.
  1. Briefly describe the sample size used for this study
  2. Make a judgment as to whether the sample size was adequate and defend your answer.
  3. Describe the number or participants and determine if the number of participants was adequate compared to the research question and the intent of the study.
  4. Are these numbers adequate? Discuss gaps in that you identified.
  5. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Describe the data collection method(s)’
  1. Who collected the data?
  2. What tools were used?
  3. What were the ethical considerations addressed and discuss gaps you identified.
  4. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Describe the limitations of the study.
  1. Identify the limitations within the study
  2. Describe how the limitations could be overcome in subsequent studies
  3. Comment on why limitations are important to list and discuss within a study
  4. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Describe the findings reported in the study.
  1. Describe the findings reported in the study
  2. Discuss whether the findings of the study answered the research question posed within the study
  3. Discuss the credibility of the findings
  4. If the findings do not support the research question posed within the study, what do you believe is the reason?
  5. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words
  1. Summary
    1. Summarize important points from the body of your paper including the key components of the paper.
    2. Include a statement about the research question and the findings.
    3. Discuss the probability of implementation into practice. Based on these findings, is the evidence strong enough to suggest a change in practice, or an idea for practice?
    4. End with a concluding statement.
  2. Citations and References must be included to support the information within each topic area. Refer to the APA manual, Chapter 7, for examples of proper reference format. In-text citations are to be noted for all information contained in your paper that is not your original idea or thought. Ask yourself, “How do I know this?” and then cite the source.
  3. Reference Page: The Reference Page should start on a new page (insert a page break). All references should be cited within the body of the paper as (Author, year) and the full reference should be included in APA format on the reference page. A url link alone is not an adequate reference. See the APA Guidelines in Course Resources for examples of properly formatted references.
 
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