Literature Appraisal | Homework #1 Solution
Literature Appraisal (25 points)
Directions: Select a research publication (not an evidence-based practice guideline) from the literature search to critically appraise. Complete the following items on the word document (.docx) provided in the module (download the document, complete it, then upload into the assignment area). Or, copy and paste the assignment (below) into your own word document (.docx), then upload it into the assignment area. (adapted from Polit & Beck, 2017, p. 100). DO NOT ALTER THIS DOCUMENT (a 5-point deduction will occur).
| Name (-1 point if missing) | |
| Academic Program & Population of Focus (-1 point if missing) | |
| APPRAISAL | |
| APA Citation (3 points) | Haverstick, S. (2017). Patients’ Hand Washing and Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infection. Critical Care Nurse, 37(3), e1–e8. https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2017694 |
| Purpose of the Study (1 point) | The purpose of the study is to improve patient’s hand hygiene by promoting and using hand washing with soap and water, hand sanitizer, or both and further improve patients’ education to reduce the hospital-acquired infections. |
| Type of Study
(1 point) |
n Quantitative
o Qualitative o Mixed Methods o Meta Analysis o Systematic Review o Other:
Any Specifics? o Cross-sectional o Longitudinal o Phenomenology o Other: |
| Setting (1 point) | An adult 36-bed cardiothoracic surgical step-down unit at the University of Michigan Health System, a large academic medical center in the Midwest |
| Intervention (1 point) | Hand washing with soap and water, hand sanitizer |
| Variables (1 point) | n Independent Variables: Hand wash
n Dependent Variables: Soap and water, hand sanitizer o Controlled Variables: o Other: |
| Framework/Theory
(1 point) (If none, state none) |
None |
| Design (1 point) | o Experimental
o Randomized Control Trial o Factorial Design o Quasi-Experimental o Non-Experimental o Descriptive n Survey o Correlational o Other: |
| Sample (1 point) | Population: Patients and providers
Number in Sample: Sampling Method: Nonprobability sampling Generalizable? o Yes n No |
| Data Sources
(1 point) |
n Self-Report/Survey
o Observational o Retrospective o Prospective o Other: Literature Appraisal |
| Outcome Measures
(1 point) (What data was collected?) |
Survey data – unit-specific infection control data – Literature Appraisal |
| Â Statistical Analysis
(1 point) |
o Bivariate (e.g., t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s r): Literature Appraisal
o Multivariate (e.g., multiple regression, logistic regression): n Other: SPSS version 21 |
| Effect size (if provided) and/or p values (if provided) (1 point) | Vancomycin resistant enterococci (P = .003) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (P = .01/Literature Appraisal) |
| Findings/Themes
(2 point) |
The implementation of the interventions led to the significant reduction of both infections. |
| Results Valid or Reliable? (2 point) (Explain) | Results valid/reliable.
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| Conclusions (2 points) | The quality improvement project demonstrated increased hand hygiene compliance by patients and healthcare professionals. It led to decreased infection rates and increased compliance with hand hygiene. |
| Strengths (2 points) |
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| Limitations (2 points) |
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Click here to access the website, which explains the goal of the APA’s Committee on Animal Research and Ethics.
Click here to access the website, examine the guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE).
Then, click here to read an alternative point of view from the animal rights perspective. Answer the following questions: Literature Appraisal
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper Literature Appraisal – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch/Literature Appraisal) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), Literature Appraisal and any other such attempts at “padding†to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
