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Assignment:
Literature Review and Critical Thinking Exercise.
Think about a clinical problem at your healthcare facility. The problem may be one you identify or one the organization has asked the team to look at (e.g., ?hospitals seeking Magnet status may want to begin an EBP process looking at a problem NDNQI indicator).
Search the literature to find studies identifying the problem you selected and possible solutions, interventions, etc. Search the literature to find what you feel is the best study, and then answer the questions below.
After carefully reading your chosen study, answer the critical thinking these questions are to be answered on the study you have found during your literature search pertaining to YOUR research topic.
EXAMPLE 1: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
Critical Thinking Exercises
a. ?Where in the research report do you think the researchers presented the hypotheses? Where in the report would the results of the hypothesis tests be placed?
b. ?Was the stated hypothesis directional or nondirectional?
c. ?Was the researchers' hypothesis supported in the statistical analysis?