Article Types
This describes what issue, problem, or topic an article addresses.
What is the purpose of the article?
This characteristic of an article can significantly affect its relevance, especially in fast-changing fields like healthcare.
What is its recency?
This is the process of asking meaningful clinical questions, seeking answers in peer-reviewed research, and using that information to make informed decisions.
What is scholarly inquiry?
This is required from participants to ensure they understand and agree to participate in ethical research.
What is informed consent?
A lack of this quality means you might not consider an article useful in a literature review because you can't rely on its findings.
What is credibility?
A type of article that might investigate a specific patient situation in detail.
What is a case study?
These are the significant results or insights uncovered and presented within an article.
What are key findings?
The very first step in scholarly inquiry involves identifying this within clinical practice.
What is a clinical issue or problem?
This group of people must approve research to ensure ethical protections are in place for participants.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This quality describes how pertinent an article is to your specific research topic or clinical question.
What is relevance?
This type of article involves collecting and analyzing new data to answer a research question.
What is a research study?
This section of a research article presents the raw data and results.
What is the results section?
After identifying a problem, scholarly inquiry includes reviewing these to find existing evidence.
What are current literature and research?
Favoring certain results or subjects can lead to this.
What is bias?
Keeping up with new research helps nurses do this.
What is stay current in best practices?
An article that describes efforts to improve specific healthcare processes or patient outcomes within a defined setting, focusing on implementation and effectiveness of changes.
What is a quality improvement article?
This section describes what was found.
What are the results?
The final step of scholarly inquiry.
What is dissemination?
This principle in research involves including diverse populations and avoiding bias based on factors like race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
What is equity in research?
This term describes care based on evidence, clinical experience, and patient values.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
This type of article summarizes and synthesizes existing literature on a specific topic, often to identify gaps or provide a comprehensive overview.
What is a review article?
This statistical term helps determine if results are not due to chance.
What is statistical significance?
This acronym helps develop focused clinical questions.
What is PICO?
When reading a study, asking "Are ethical protections described?" and "Who is included—and who’s left out?" helps you evaluate these two critical aspects of the research.
What are inclusion and exclusion?
Before changing a policy on patient falls, a nurse manager reviews recent studies and surveys the staff.
What is gathering and appraising evidence?