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Assessment Task

Description

The goal of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of research principles and methods. The workbook consists of 2 parts Part A, the Research Presentations and Part B, the research critique.

Assessment Criteria

Completion of the workbook will be assessed according to the following criteria:

• Understand the principles of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting, analysing and presenting information in health research

• Manage information systems to identify and find relevant peer reviewed literature to explore a health care research question

• Critically appraise health care research literature

• Discussion of the relevance to evidence-based practice

Workbook Part A: Research Presentations

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a requirement of all registered health practitioners (AHPRA 2014). The CPD requirements of each National Board are detailed in the Registration

Standards for each profession, these detail the number of credits/points/hours practitioners must spend each year on learning activities.

For example, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) states “CPD is the means by which members of the professions maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge, expertise and competence, and develop the personal and professional qualities needed throughout their professional lives” (NMBA, 2016, p 1). An example of a CPD activity is attending “conferences, forums, seminars and symposia” (NMBA, 2016, p 2).

In NUR131 you are required to view 8 research presentations as an illustrative example of a CPD activity. In Part A of the workbook you are required complete a workbook entry for each of the 8 Research Presentations. The research presentations for this activity are located in the Research Presentations folder in the course BlackBoard.

Each presentation entry should be approximately 100 words and must address the following criteria:

• Date you listened to the presentation

• Name of the presenter

• Title of the presentation

• Description of topics covered during research presentation

• Reflection on presentation and its application to your future practice

Workbook Part B: Research Critique

Part B of the workbook requires you to critically appraise a research article. You are required to analyse and critique the journal article. Simple yes/no answers are not adequate responses. Do not use quotations as this demonstrates that you can find information but does not demonstrate that you understand a concept. Your course textbook provides detailed instruction on how to undertake a critique of a journal article.

Approximately 1500 words will be required to complete part B in the workbook.

Explain the purpose of the study. Use the PICO or PICo format to identify the research question.

Discuss the design used in the research.

Identify and explain sampling and recruitment procedures used in the research?

Explain how the data was collected.

Explain how the data was analysed.

Briefly summarise the results of this study.

Discuss relevance for health professionals’ practice.

Academic writing- structure in each response, grammar and spelling Use of Harvard Referencing style

You are required to retrieve the following assessment article using the USC library databases:

Article: Cooke M, Ullman AJ, Ray-Barruel G, Wallis M, Corley A & Rickard CM 2018, ‘Not "just" an intravenous line: Consumer perspectives on peripheral intravenous cannulation (PIVC). An international cross-sectional survey of 25countries’, PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1-18.