Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
If the permalink below does not work, please use the authors last name and/or the name of the article to search, locate, and access the article.
Download or accessthe required article below. This article must be used.
Tomita, R. (2024). The relationship between general selfefficacy and nursing practice competence for secondyear nurses:
Empirical quantitative research. Nursing Open, 11(7), e2233-n/a
Directions
Complete the Critiquing Evidence Assignment worksheet template, by following the steps below.
- Use of this worksheet template is required. If the template is not used, a 10% deduction will be applied.
- Locate the assigned article. The article is available in an announcement posted in preview week and in Week 4. The announcement is titled:
- IMPORTANT: Assigned Article for Week 5 Assignment
- Read the required research article then answer each question in your own words on the Critiquing Evidence worksheet template about the study.
- Do not copy and paste information from the article into the worksheet.
- Correctly cite and reference the assigned article when incorporating it to answer questions on the Critiquing Evidence worksheet template.
- An external scholarly source is required in Section 4 (see below). External scholarly sources used to support answers should be no more than five years old.
- Follow rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation consistent with formal, scientific writing.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric). Answer the questions under each section with explanation and detail.
Section 1: Purpose and Design of the Study
- What is the purpose of the study? Is it clearly stated?
- What is the research design? Is this a quantitative or qualitative study?
- How does the design support the purpose of the study?
Section 2: Sample
- What is the sample size and the population for the study?
- What are the participants key characteristics?
- What sampling technique was used?
Section 3: Data Collection
- What data was collected during the study?
- What was the data collection technique?
- Was this form of data collection reliable and valid?
Section 4: Data Analysis
- What type of data analysis was conducted?
- What have you learned about this form of data analysis?
- Use an external source of evidence to support this discussion.
Section 5: Limitations and Findings
- What were the limitations of the study?
- What were the overall findings?
- What is one interesting detail you learned from reading this study?
Section 6: Application to Practice
- How can you apply these findings to your practice?
- Why is it important for you to read and understand research literature?
- What have you learned from completing the Critiquing Evidence Worksheet?
