Overview VT of Matrix Nursing Essay

Overview VT of Matrix Nursing Essay

Overview VT of Matrix Nursing Essay

This  assignment will require you to take the PICO, 5 research articles and place them in a table for analysis.  You will critique each article and identify the most important parts of the research, analysis, and findings.

Then  you will summarize the articles by grading the research, and identifying gaps in the literature as well as possible interventions (see grading rubric and examples).

This will serve as the foundation for the work you will do in the Project/Practicum courses. As you work with your preceptor and finalize your capstone project, you will continue to build on this material.  This assignment will be graded within 3-4 days of due date, with feedback provided once all grading has been completed.

This assignment enables the learners to meet Course SLO #1, 2, 3, 4

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Instructions:

Identify your PICO or research question of interest

Gather 5 research articles on your topic: be sure to save them and submit them along with the matrix;  please make sure they are PDF documents. Do not use clinical guidelines or Cochran Reviews, abstracts, or  poster presentations.  You can search for research only by indicating “research” when you do an advanced search.  If you can’t answer a lot of the questions, it is probably not a research article.

Review sample matrices and summaries

Use matrix table- one for each article and critique the parts of the article using the rubric

Be sure to identify the evaluation tool used to grade the evidence such as (See below for grading the evidence tools)

Identify where there are issues with the articles and what gaps were not addressed with the research; be prepared this may change the way you look at your topic or may result in a slightly different direction for your area of interest. This is ok- that is what you want to accomplish with this assignment. It will really assist you as you move forward with your project.

For this assignment you will turn in the matrix tables, summary, references and pdf copies of your 5 articles.

Key definitions:

Level of evidence:  the process used to evaluate the level of evidence of your articles- such as Jones Hopkins,  Cincinnati Children’s evaluation etc,

Evaluation tool: use the method and describe how you arrived at the scoring or knowing that the article included all content it needed to- such as CASP;

Instrument: What type of instrument or tool was used in the article?  This could be  a depression screening tool, Nurse satisfaction tool etc.  Describe the instrument- how many questions, reliability- consistency with test-retest, Cronbach Alpha, inter-rater reliablity; validity with content validity, face validity

Files:  Overview VT of Matrix Nursing Essay

Use this form for your assignment: Article Matrix and Analysis Revised 10.2020-1.docx

Rubric: DNP 816 Rubric for Matrix and Summary 10.2020 Final v2.docx

Sample 1 Matrix_dnp816. Fall 2020 with permission.docx

Sample 2 DNP 816 Matrix Fall 2020 with permission.docx

Links to critical appraisal tools to evaluate research quality:

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Joanna Briggs Institute (joannabriggs.org) Joanna Briggs Institute (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)

CASP checklists (Links to an external site.)

Mixed Method appraisal checklist McGill:  (Links to an external site.)

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Legend tools- very helpful (Links to an external site.)

Johns Hopkins EBP Models and Tools  (Links to an external site.)