Strategy Submission

This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to develop research skills through the development of a problem statement and formal review of literature related to the problem statement. Areas selected may pertain to nursing, a clinical nursing issue, or healthcare issue related to nursing. The area of interest, clinical issue, or research problem may focus on content related to didactic/clinical component of the course or current trends in nursing or health care. The topic/problem statement requires approval before the review is started. Once approved, students are to examine six research based nursing articles that relate to the chosen topic. The student must then provide no more than a one page summary on each article consisting of: 1-2 paragraphs summarizing the purpose for the research, how the research was conducted (research methods), and research conclusions; and, 1-2 paragraphs describing relevance to the problem statement and how the findings impact nursing practice. Summaries are to be written according to APA guidelines. The project can be submitted electronically or in a 2 inch binder and includes: rubric, title page, articles, article summaries, and reference page. All written documents must follow APA guidelines. After submission and grading of the project, students are to make corrections as needed and create a professional poster, that depicts summarized research, to present at an interdisciplinary campus event or at local health care related events.