NURS301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Literature Review, Serval, Research Question

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS301
• Professor: Christine Covel

Document Summary

Synthesis understanding the whole article and each step of the research process in a study. Critique process of critical appraisal, evaluating the research. Critiquing criteria standards, appraisal guides, or questioning used to judge an article. Literature review identifies gaps and inconsistencies in the literature about subject, concept or problem and all of the concepts and variables included in the review. Pointing out strengths and weaknesses when critiquing. Research evidence categorized from weakest to strongest. Quality the extent to which a sudy deisng, implementation and analysis minizes bias. Quantity number of studies in which the research question has been evaluated, including overall sample size across studies as well as the strength of the findings from the data analyzes. Consistency degree t wchih similar findings are reported from investigations of the same research question in studies that have simiar and different designs. The type or nature of the study.