The focus of this week’s assignment is identifying research components. You will be responsible for reviewing two articles (listed below) and completing the following tasks for each one:
- Summarize each article utilizing the Week 2 research template.
- Identify and describe the problem, purpose, and hypothesis or research questions of each study.
- Analyze and discuss the significance of the research to nursing practice.
- Identify two details to support the research as qualitative or quantitative.
- NOTE: If a component is absent, student receives a zero for that component.
Cite all sources in APA format.
Submission Details
Name your document SU_NSG3029_W2_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your template to the W2 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, August 8, 2017.
Article Assignments
Students with the last name beginning with A-L
Bortz, A., Ashkenazi, T., & Melnikov, S. (2015). Spirituality as a predictive factor for signing an organ donor card. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 25-33. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12107
Dinkel, S., & Schmidt, K. (2015). Health education needs of incarcerated women. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 46(4), 229-234. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12079
Students with the last name beginning with M-Z
Park, M., Cho, S., & Hong, H. (2015). Prevalence and perpetrators of workplace violence by nursing unit and the relationship between violence and the perceived work environment. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 87-95. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12112
Turk, M., Fapohunda, A., & Zoucha, R. (2015). Using photovoice to explore Nigerian immigrants’ eating and physical activity in the United States. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 16-24. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12105
| Assignment 2 Grading Criteria | Maximum Points |
| Summarized the research articles. | 32 |
| Identified and described the problem for each article. | 16 |
| Identified the purpose statement for each article. | 8 |
| Identified the hypothesis and/or research question(s) depending on the methodology used in the articles. | 12 |
| After analyzing, discuss each article’s significance to nursing practice. | 12 |
| Identify two details to support the research being qualitative or quantitative. | 16 |
| Written component. | 24 |
| Total: | 120 |
