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NUR 288 Literature Review: A Self-Guided Tutorial

Use this research guide for NUR 288 Quality Improvement Project

Literature Review Process

Literature review process cycle from Literature Review (2009) by Machi and McEvoy.This guide will help you:

  • Define a literature review.
  • Recognize that different fields of study have their own way to perform and write literature reviews.
  • Prepare to search the literature.
  • Read critically -- analyze and synthesize.
  • Manage your references.
  • Prepare to write a literature review.

 

Graphic from Machi & McEvoy (2009) Literature Review. Detailed text description of graphic.

Nursing 288 Quality Improvement Project

Complete the Literature Review tutorial as part of your QI Project for NUR 288: 

Quality Improvement Project

  • In your clinical setting identify an improvement
  • Assess the setting
  • Determine the needs
  • Decide on the change (intervention)
  • Literature Review
    • Review the literature to support the intervention