What intervention will enable nurses to improve outcomes for patient with dementia undertaking nasogastric tube feed”
Your assignment comprises of two interlinked sections:
1. An integrative literature review (academic enquiry) on a researchable clinical problem of your choosing which is field specific and relevant
to your clinical nursing practice. Having chosen your research question you must find 10 research based articles which specifically answer your
research question
Please carefully read and follow the detailed guidelines which are designed to help you successfully
complete your AcPE project.
Abstract (150 words max: does not count towards the overall word count)
Your abstract should include the following subheadings:
• Title
• Aim
• Background
• Methods
• Review Results
• Implementation of findings
• Conclusion
Introduction (500 words max)
• Rationale for study: this may be clinical, personal and/or theoretical (derived from academic literature)
• Importance of review question: may be clinical, personal and/or theoretical (derived from academic literature)
• Justify why an integrative review of the literature is important, and why it is the preferred research method in this
instance
• Qualify the review question, what exactly is your question about?
The integrative literature review method as informed by Aveyard, (2014) (500 words max)
• Clear search strategy guided by a focused research question
• You must refer to your PVEBP notes here in relation to PICO, PIO and PEO
• Your 10 research articles must include primary sources of evidence but you may also include a maximum of 2
secondary sources of evidence
• You must explain your inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Discuss the use of appropriate critical appraisal or CASP tools to support your analysis (Fully completed critical
appraisal tools like CASP tools are not required as appendix)
• Discuss your use of a data extraction table
• Data derived from critical appraisal tool (like CASP) analysis must be entered in to the data extraction table under the
methodological strengths/weaknesses section. Your data extraction table must be attached as an appendix to your
assignment. The amount of critical comments you enter in to the data extraction table is up to you, but it should be no
less than 3 critical comments
• Your theme generation table must be completed and attached as an appendix
• You must identify 2-4 themes to encapsulate the main findings emerging from your 10 studies.
