Unit Code*:NUR248
Unit Name*: RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED NURSING
Assignment Title*: CRITIQUE OF LITERATURE
Date Due*: 12/10/14
Submission Date*: 10/10/14
Lecturer’s Name*: LEENA PANICKER
Student’s Full Name*: HARSHANI TANIYAAMIDON
Student No*: s251057
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Assignment 2: A critique of the literature
Nurses are expected to deliver high quality care with the latest techniques and information available. In order to do this nurses are required to actively participate to nursing research and critique them. Nursing research has increased greatly in the past three decades exposing nurses to latest knowledge, to provide quality care to the patients (Polit & Beck, 2004). Further more, to provide evidence based practice, nurses must be able to assess and critique research to evaluate and to judge whether the research is useful, good quality, current and safe to apply in their practice (Fink,2005). This