(Answered) NR505NP Week 3: Collaboration Cafe

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. 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.

During the week, read a minimum of two articles posted by peers and add your thoughts about whether you feel their article would support an EBP change.

Solution:

The quantitative article selected explored the impact of a multidisciplinary approach on heart failure readmission rates (Jackevicius et al., 2015). The research design used by the researcher was a retrospective cohort study. This is a type of observational study design in which the researcher looks back at the data that has been archived data. This informs the researcher if the risk of disease in the patients was different in those that were exposed and those that were not exposed. In this design, the researcher the patient compared the patients that were discharged…Click link below to purchase full tutorial at $10