Literature Search Worksheet
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Name:______Kim Orta__________________________
Date:_____07/17/2013_________
Literature Search Worksheet
Select a literature search topic relevant to your practice. The topic must be sufficiently delineated in scope without being trivial. You will revisit this research study article in your Week Five presentation. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Nonpharmacological pain relief with childbirth
Effects of shift work and fatigue on medication errors
Best practices for pin site care
Nurse satisfaction in magnet hospitals
Accurate temperature assessment methods in neonates
Pain assessment in the cognitively impaired
Childhood type II diabetes and obesity
Complementary and alternative therapies for …show more content…
Pain assessment in the cognitively impaired
Which three databases will you use? (List the names here)
1. Ovid Nursing Database
2. ProQuest
3. Sage Journals
Search each database, using key words, for relevant research on this nursing subject. What key words did you use in the Search Strategy fields for each database? Include all attempts and limitations used to refine your search.
Database Name
Key Words
Attempts and limitations
1.
Ovid Nursing Database
Key words typed in this order: “research and pain and assessment and cognitively impaired”
Attempts
1
Limitations
Publication year: 2010 to current
Publication Type: Research Support Non-US Govt
2.
ProQuest
Key words typed for search: “pain” AND “cognitively impaired”
Attempts
4
Limitations
Peer reviewed: Yes
Date: Last 3 years
Source type: Government & Official Publications, Other Sources, Scholarly Journals, Trade Journals
Document type:
Article, Case Study, Report, Statistics/Data Report
Language: English
3.
Sage …show more content…
Yes.
*Is the first author a Registered Nurse?
Yes. The first author is Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Pain and Palliative Care
2. *How did you confirm that the journal you selected was peer-reviewed or germinal (if it is not peer-reviewed—you will need to select another nursing research study)?
Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials is an international peer reviewed scholarly. The primary aim is the “dissemination and development of knowledge about the design, conduct, analysis, synthesis, history, ethics, regulation and clinical or policy impact of all types of clinical trials and related medical research methodologies.” (Sage Journals, 2013).
3. *Does this research article generate support for evidence-based practice? If not, state why it does not.
“EBP requires synthesizing research evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and these types of studies are limited in nursing. However, the number of RCTs conducted to test nursing interventions has greatly increased…” (Burns & Grove, 2011, p. 466).
*Describe the level of research evidence from the text, what level it is at (page 25)?—for your selected nursing research
Name:______Kim Orta__________________________
Date:_____07/17/2013_________
Literature Search Worksheet
Select a literature search topic relevant to your practice. The topic must be sufficiently delineated in scope without being trivial. You will revisit this research study article in your Week Five presentation. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Nonpharmacological pain relief with childbirth
Effects of shift work and fatigue on medication errors
Best practices for pin site care
Nurse satisfaction in magnet hospitals
Accurate temperature assessment methods in neonates
Pain assessment in the cognitively impaired
Childhood type II diabetes and obesity
Complementary and alternative therapies for …show more content…
Pain assessment in the cognitively impaired
Which three databases will you use? (List the names here)
1. Ovid Nursing Database
2. ProQuest
3. Sage Journals
Search each database, using key words, for relevant research on this nursing subject. What key words did you use in the Search Strategy fields for each database? Include all attempts and limitations used to refine your search.
Database Name
Key Words
Attempts and limitations
1.
Ovid Nursing Database
Key words typed in this order: “research and pain and assessment and cognitively impaired”
Attempts
1
Limitations
Publication year: 2010 to current
Publication Type: Research Support Non-US Govt
2.
ProQuest
Key words typed for search: “pain” AND “cognitively impaired”
Attempts
4
Limitations
Peer reviewed: Yes
Date: Last 3 years
Source type: Government & Official Publications, Other Sources, Scholarly Journals, Trade Journals
Document type:
Article, Case Study, Report, Statistics/Data Report
Language: English
3.
Sage …show more content…
Yes.
*Is the first author a Registered Nurse?
Yes. The first author is Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Pain and Palliative Care
2. *How did you confirm that the journal you selected was peer-reviewed or germinal (if it is not peer-reviewed—you will need to select another nursing research study)?
Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials is an international peer reviewed scholarly. The primary aim is the “dissemination and development of knowledge about the design, conduct, analysis, synthesis, history, ethics, regulation and clinical or policy impact of all types of clinical trials and related medical research methodologies.” (Sage Journals, 2013).
3. *Does this research article generate support for evidence-based practice? If not, state why it does not.
“EBP requires synthesizing research evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and these types of studies are limited in nursing. However, the number of RCTs conducted to test nursing interventions has greatly increased…” (Burns & Grove, 2011, p. 466).
*Describe the level of research evidence from the text, what level it is at (page 25)?—for your selected nursing research