NUR 80A/B Lecture 4: Fall Week 4 - Reviewing research literature and theoretical foundations
13 Dec 2011
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Fall week 4 - reviewing research literature and theoretical foundations. Literature reviews serve a number of important functions in the research process - and they play a critical role for nurses to develop an evidence-based practice. Familiarity with relevant research literature can help the researcher in various ways: Identifying theoretical/conceptual frameworks as the basis for research. Research reviews are not prepared solely for the context of doing a study. Nursing students and nurses in a variety of roles also review and synthesize evidence. Here are a few examples: acquire knowledge critique practice/recommendations develop clinical protocols & interventions develop theory/conceptual framework develop & revise nursing curricula develop policy statements & practice guidelines. Identifying references, using the guidelines and tools described in the previous section is an early step in preparing a written review of research literature. Flow of tasks in a literature review (loiselle et al. , 2007, figure 7. 2. Id key words and concepts to be searched.
