Week 3: Collaboration Cafe

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With new information continually emerging, professional nurses must be equipped to critique scholarly literature and discern its value for practice. Select one current, quantitative scholarly nursing article related to your PICOT question and determine its strengths, limitations, and potential application.

Complete the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal Tool Download Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Appendix E Evidence Appraisal Tool. Once you’ve completed the tool, use your own words to summarize your appraisal of the article. Include the following:

• Description of the purpose
• Explanation of research design
• Discussion of sample
• Description of data collection methods
• Summary of findings
• Strengths of the study (minimum of 1)
• Limitations of the study (minimum of 1)
• Recommendations regarding potential application for future practice that are insightful and appropriate.

Attach the article to your post, in addition to including the full reference for the article in your post.

Please include 

• Reflection: write 1-2 paragraphs reflecting on your learning for the week. Guiding questions are provided or you may write about what you felt was most significant to you for the week.
• How hard was it to find a quantitative article related to your area of interest?
• Did you have any difficulty determining whether the articles you reviewed were quantitative?
• Is the quantitative approach appropriate for your area of interest? Would you be able to replicate the study you found?