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Introduction
In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing healthcare environment. Being adept at research helps you find the information you need. This assessment gives you practice with that skill by having you research a healthcare problem or issue faced by current healthcare organizations.

Overview
You will select a current healthcare problem or issue from the provided options for this assessment. Research your topic, and develop a written assessment, which includes an annotated bibliography to document your resources. Boost your grades with expert-level assignment help today.

Reminder: You will use your selected problem or issue again in upcoming assessments. The purpose of this assessment is to ensure you know how to research topics and find credible references to use in your assessments. Part of the assessment is an annotated bibliography. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of research references, along with key information about each; the detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about your chosen problem or issue.

Prepare
Conduct research in the Capella library to find a total of three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles in relation to a selected healthcare problem or issue presented in the Assessment 02 Supplement: Applying Research Skills [PDF] Download Assessment 02 Supplement: Applying Research Skills [PDF]resource. You must select your healthcare-related issue or problem from the topic areas presented in this resource.
Write a brief overview of the healthcare problem or issue. In your overview:

Summarize the healthcare problem or issue, including describing its professional relevance.
Describe your interest in the problem or issue.
Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
Discussion of Research
Discuss your research and selection process for each of the three journal articles you have chosen to include in your annotated bibliography.

Describe your process of applying library research skills to identify the journal articles relevant to the healthcare problem or issue you are researching.
Identify the keywords you used to select the articles.
Describe the criteria you used to select the resources, including the names of the databases you used.
What was the process like to locate relevant articles?
Assess the credibility of the information sources.
Determine whether each resource is from an academic, peer-reviewed journal.
Determine whether the publication is current (published within the last 3-5 years).
Determine whether information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.
Explain how the healthcare problem or issue is addressed in each source.
Discuss what kind of contribution each resource provides.