Nursing dissertation workshop
- 1. Searching for your nursing dissertationNursing 2016
- 2. What do you want covered today? “By the end of today’s session I want to have covered/looked at/done…”
- 3. What will you be doing today? • Quick refresher on primary and secondary sources • Example search • Your own search • Critical appraisal and referencing • ………………
- 4. A quick refresher on primary and secondary sources
- 5. Distinguishing between primary and secondary sources • Primary sources – original research published by the researchers in peer- reviewed journals. Use databases such as CINAHL to search for these. • Secondary sources – work that summarises, critiques or reviews primary research. See for example NICE and the Cochrane Library.
- 6. Ask: What exactly are you trying to find out?
- 7. For any question: • Consider the different keywords, related terms or subheadings within your question; • Think of possible synonyms e.g. stroke or cerebral vascular accident; • Search each element separately; • Combine searches on the same or similar subjects with OR e.g. high blood pressure OR hypertension; • Combine searches on different subjects using AND e.g. diabetes AND pregnancy.
- 8. Search Scenario • One in four women experience domestic abuse at some stage in their lives, and 30% of this abuse starts in pregnancy. Twycross, A. (2014) ‘Disclosure of domestic violence and abuse: how prepared are you?’ Evidence-based nursing, 17(3), pp. 63-64. • As a nurse, how could you best respond to a pregnant women experiencing domestic abuse?
- 9. Over to you – your search
- 10. Critical appraisal “It usually comes as a surprise to students to learn that some …published articles belong in the bin and should not be used to inform practice” (Greenhalgh 2006).
- 11. Finding critical appraisal resources 3rd year nursing subject guide