As a recent BSN graduate, you sign-up to join a journal club on your clinical unit. The journal club serves as a collective effort to remain current with the literature. The purpose of the j

Scenario
As a recent BSN graduate, you sign-up to join a journal club on your clinical unit. The journal club serves as a collective effort to remain current with the literature. The purpose of the journal club is to provide a strategy for evaluating current research and translating it to nursing practice. The facilitator of the journal club has asked you to select, critically appraise, and present your findings at the next meeting. Since this is your first time presenting, the facilitator provides a worksheet to guide you through the process.
Competency: Differentiate the components of the research process.
Find a current nursing research article (studies will have method sections) published within the past five years and include the permalink for the article you selected
What is the identified research problem? Does the author include the significance and background of the problem?
Describe the identified research problem
Discuss the significance and background of the problem
Did the author clearly articulate the research purpose? What was the purpose of the research? Clearly state the research purpose
Identify the study methodology.
Type of study
Sample Size (number of participants in the study or number of studies if this was a systemic review or meta-analysis)
Was there an intervention? If so, what was it?
What outcome was measured?
How was it measured?
Who was in the study?
Where was the study completed?
What were the results?
Did the article include a relevant review of the literature? Explain.
This content is located primarily in the literature review, but discussion of prior evidence may be found in other sections of the nursing research article.
Describe the theoretical framework for the research study
Consider nursing theories
If not clearly stated in the research article, which theoretical framework could you apply to the study and why?
What research objectives, questions, hypotheses, and procedures were identified in the article?
Provide a summary of the research objectives, questions, hypothesis, and procedure.
Describe the study’s results (findings) and identify strengths and limitations.
For strengths and limitations, sometimes an author does not identify them, and it is up to you to figure them out. Consider these questions: was there a big sample size, what would increase the reliability of the study, was there pre- post-test data, does the type of data collection and analysis increase the reliability of the study, and were there valid measurements taken?
Discuss the findings, including their relevance to clinical practice.
What are four implications/recommendations for practice (this is how the information from the study can be used in nursing practice)?
What is the credibility of the study? What makes it believable?