Topic: How can nursing intervention reduce delirium for patient in ITU/ICU?

Order Description Indicative Content: - The development of nursing research in recent decades. - What is an extended literature review? Development and presentation of the literature review. - Evidence based practice and clinical effectiveness/evaluation of sources of nursing knowledge. - Rationale for critique of the literature. - Advanced literature searching skills/data collection. Inclusion/exclusion criteria. - Examination of research designs: if it - Quantitative designs: positivist/’scientific’. RCTs, surveys. or - Qualitative designs: ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, , case studies.- Issues of rigour, trustworthiness, bias and generalisability. - Concepts of hierarchy of evidence, best available evidence and the underpinning philosophies of research. - Issues of sampling: probability and non-probability techniques. - Ethical principles and their effects on the research process. - Analysis and presentation of data. Levels of measurement, descriptive and inferential statistics. - Analysis of data; qualitative methods, content analysis and computer packages. - Methods of data collection: measurements, questionnaires, interviews, observation and use of written data - Outline why the research focus has been chosen - Explain the "so what" of the topic: how will this impact on the nursing knowledge base - Explain how the research question was framed e.g. PICO, FINER etc. It will take the form of an 8000-word extended review of the literature relating to the student’s chosen topic.