NURS521 Emergency Nursing Care Theory-recommendations for future research

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Literature Review Paper Guidelines

Identify a patient-related clinical issue (e.g., patients’ response to illness or therapy, nursing intervention strategy). Then review the literature specific to the identified issue. The review should reflect a scholarly writing in terms of knowledge, analysis, originality, synthesis, and structure and organization. The content should include: significance of the issue; structured, logical, and organized discussion and understanding of the current literature; researchbased conclusion; and recommendations for future research.

Introduction

The purpose of the Introduction is to describe what your research project is about Start the Introduction on a new page. There is no heading called “Introduction” in a research report.

When writing your Introduction, follow the policy of starting broad and ending narrow. The Introduction should be logically structured, including a general introduction to the research topic, a description of the specific issue that your study aims to examine, and a summary of the relevant background research (showing how and why your particular study came about). The Introduction should end with a clear statement of the specific theoretical hypothesis that you are going to examine, how you plan to examine it (i.e., a brief summary of the experimental method), and the predictions (what results the hypothesis predicts you should observe in your experiment

Design

This is the third sub-section under Method. Its purpose is to describe and justify the design of your experiment.

1. Describe the design – don’t just mention it. Describe the independent variables, the dependent variables, or, in a relational study, what factors are being correlated. You must also explain how the participants were assigned to each experimental group, what the conditions in the experiment were and, if appropriate, how many trials there were in each condition. Also describe any controls that were built into the design of the experiment (e.g., counterbalancing).

2. Justify your design decisions. For example, why was a within-subjects design used rather than a between-subjects design? Why was counter balancing employed?

Procedure

This is the fourth sub-section under Method. Its purpose is to describe how the data was collected – what the subjects were told to do, and what happened in the course of the experiment.

1. Describe all relevant events as presented to the participant during the experimental session. For example, if your experiment had several trials, describe exactly how each trial was structured, what the subjects had to do, and how their responses were recorded.

2. Include a description of any written or verbal instructions that were given to the participants.

The Procedure is an important part of your report, as it is a comprehensive account of what you, the experimenter, actually did. Therefore it is an essential section for someone who wishes to replicate your experiment. Describe everything as clearly as possible. It is a good idea to read over your Procedure Section and ask yourself “Could I do this experiment, if I knew nothing about it, simply from reading the Procedure?” If the answer is no, then revise it

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NURS521 Emergency Nursing Care Theory-recommendations for future research