Assignment Task
Introduction
Begin to introduce your topic here.
Purpose statement
Provide a clear purpose statement for your PICOT question with rationales for developing the PICOT question
PICOT Question
Introduce your PICOT question here, including PICOT question in a sentence, details in each PICOT component, type of PICOT question, and the best levels of evidence to answer the type of PICOT question.
Search Strategy
Begin to describe your search strategy , including search strategy, databases searched, search terms, inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria.
Present the search process for each database on a search results table, including
- Databases
- Search terms
- Number retrieved
- Number included
Selection of Final Articles
Introduce the two of the final sources of evidence for appraisal and explain why you chose each source to answer your PICOT question.
Equivalent
Critical Appraisal
Explain the critical appraisal tools selected and used, and how do you make the decision regarding the quality of papers selected (e.g., high quality, medium quality or low quality)
Provide a summary of the table of article appraisal below (Please refer to the UG, pages. 15-17 for more details)
Discussion
To discuss how the PICOT question has been answered and how the information found in the sources appraised might be used to guide clinical practice.
Using the correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Please make sure that your sentences and paragraphs are well structured and you have used the marking criteria as a guide to writing your essay. The assignment should use third-person writing.
Each new paragraph begins with an indent. Please refer to Assignment Presentation in NUR237 Assessment Guide for more presentation requirements (See Unit Guide pps 17-18).
