Assignment Paper

Identify a clinical problem in your area of clinical interest. Discuss a gap in the current research literature that you can identify specific to your clinical problem (Chapter 3 & 5).
Gray, J., Grove, S. & Sutherland, S. (2017). Burn’s and Grove’s The practice of nursing research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. ISBN 978- 0-323-37758-4
Think about variables you will need to investigate to fill the gap in knowledge share with your group.

For example (this is just an example), increased CAUTI in critical care is a clinical problem you are familiar with. You hypothesize that silver tip catheters decrease the incidence of CAUTIs in critical care. You as the researcher would like to investigate if this reduction in CAUTI can be attributed to silver tip catheters, but you are unable to find this in the literature. You develop a research problem stating this gap in the literature; Does the use of silver tip catheters in critical care units decrease the incidence of CAUTIS? The target population would be patients in critical care units with catheters. .The variables include CAUTI and silver tip catheters. The setting is critical care.

This is a discussion post

This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Original Post
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•Addresses all elements required in the prompt •Post is substantive •Cited correctly (as appropriate)
30.0 to >0 pts
Needs Imporvement
•Post is incomplete in addressing all elements •Post is not substantive •Citation is missing (when needed)
60.0 pts
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•Reply provides substantive feedback to peer •Citation included (as appropriate)
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•Reply not substantive •Citation is missing (when needed) •Reply made to peer who already had two replies
20.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Second peer reply
20.0 to >10.0 pts
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•Reply provides substantive feedback to peer •Citation included (as appropriate)
10.0 to >0 pts
Needs Imporvement
•Reply not substantive •Citation is missing (when needed) •Reply made to peer who already had two replies
20.0 pts
Total Points: 100.0