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Part of your assignment will be to retrieve and review 8 scholarly nursing research articles published within the last five years in order to write literature review. But what is a literature review?
Literature reviews:
You will search the professional literature in databases like CINAHL, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source for information pertaining to your research topic, and then summarize, synthesize and contextualize that information.
Start with creating a Research Matrix (as outlined by your professor) to help you analyze and organize the studies you find. A research matrix can be created as a table in Microsoft Word or in Microsoft Excel:
APA Citation to article | Research problem or Study purpose | Quantitative or Qualitative? & Level of Evidence? | Key concepts/Theoretical framework | Clinical implications & Gaps in evidence | Standard of Care & Recommendations | Comments |
Article 1 | ||||||
Article 2 |
Literature reviews should not be a mere listing and description of each article, but should be organized in a way that aids the reader in understanding the subject being reviewed. They can be organized in several different ways, for example: