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NHSFPX4000 Assessment 2 Applying Research Skills

1. NHS-FPX4000 Assessment 2: Applying Research Skills
Capella University
NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective
Danielle Koman DNP, FNP
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NHS-FPX4000 Assessment 2: Applying Research Skills
Applying Research Skills
Research skills are essential in both clinical and post-clinical life, and it is very important
to have strong research skills in healthcare. The ability to gather, assess, and apply

2. information can exert a profound influence on outcomes and interactions. The NHS-
FPX4000 course requires students to develop skills in understanding healthcare issues,
engaging in academic materials, and locating credible sources. This means that they will
pick research articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, determine the reliability and
relevance of these articles, and prepare an annotated bibliography. This process also
highlights experience derived from these initiatives and introduces evidence-based
practice (EBP) into practice environments, in addition to enhancing research capabilities.
Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Searching and finding peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles is an important part of
healthcare education. These papers have also been through a rigorous peer review process
to ensure the originality and reliability of the findings presented. If science truly were a
process, this interaction among peers would be so that students would critique each
other's work, methods used, results obtained, and conclusions drawn in the same field of
study. It ensures that published studies are great and help provide new insight into the
field. Academic and industry research benefits from peer-reviewed journal articles
because they contain empirically based practical data that can be trusted to guide
decisions in practice.
The relevant healthcare facilities that can be used to access peer-reviewed research
articles include PubMed, CINAHL, and Google Scholar. These databases contain various
articles on healthcare themes. Like other databases, students wanting to look for
publications that relate to their areas of research need to be selective when using the

3. search terms. By applying standards such as 'peer-reviewed,' the only best sources are
obtained after going through a rigorous academic evaluation.
Students who write about the effects of telemedicine on patients will need to use specific
terms such as telemedicine, virtual care, healthcare access, and patient outcomes.
Additional search parameters may also be filtered using Boolean operators like AND and
OR. These terms in a search will bring articles related to telemedicine and patient
outcomes. Researchers can build on their papers by consulting scholarly publications
because the sources cited are drawn from peer-reviewed journals. Specialists in the field
write these articles, and their revisions by peers guarantee that the material is current and
correct.
Assessing the Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources
Research must judge the credibility and relevance of the sources provided. Some things
found on the Internet can be used in academic research or academic writing. In
healthcare, misinformation can cause very serious outcomes, and therefore, it's important
to pinpoint trusted sources.
To be sure of a source's reliability, we should employ certain other criteria. An important
factor is either the author's credentials. Articles written by authors who are working with
reputed medical centers and accredited academic institutions are more reliable than
others. Also, consider the date of publication more than anything since, in some fields,
quite a lot of information goes out of date, including in health care. Often, today's
research is more of a look at the newest trends and findings published in the last five
years or so.

4. The strength of the publication also comes from the journal or publisher's reputation.
Recognized academic and professional publishers publish generally higher quality
articles published in scientific, peer-reviewed journals. Even more important is
ascertaining the significance of a source. In addition to reliability, a source may also need
to give us more valuable information for a research query. The Policing Terrorism
Research Guide also states that relevance is a major consideration when deciding whether
a source is appropriate to respond to a research question. For example, it might need to be
a more substantial source if research is looking to measure how efficiency improvements
in patient treatment have increased. For effective research, it is important to determine
the reliability and relevance of the sources you are evaluating.
Constructing an Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography can help organize researchers by compiling sources and also
facilitate the determination of how the sources are related to the study. The first one is to
outline sources and use a formatting style like APA. Then, a brief note about each source
should be made. Brief annotations of the sources should tell us who and what the source
is, also evaluate the source's reliability, and determine the relevance of the source to the
study. Once you create an annotated bibliography, you can organize your collected
information, and during your critical analysis, you will be certain of what your sources
are about. For example, in researching telemedicine, an annotated bibliography entry
might look like this:
Smith, J. A., & Johnson, P. L. (2021). Telemedicine in healthcare: A review of
patient outcomes. Journal of Healthcare Research, 35(2), 45-60.

5. In essence, this article synthesizes many empirical studies on the effects of telemedicine
on patients’ outcomes. Those researching or seeking information on the various benefits
of virtual healthcare services will find the results provided by the authors particularly
helpful, especially since the authors work for two well-recognized healthcare research
organizations. The authors believe that telemedicine significantly improves patients’
satisfaction and the availability of healthcare options. Students are expected to engage
with the literature and understand how to structure all their findings in an annotated
bibliography that will aid them in devising an argument for their final papers.
Lessons Learned from Research
Several important lessons can be learned from the process of searching for sources,
assessing them, and compiling the annotated bibliography. First, according to current
research, there is one unambiguous goal that every academic researcher should know:
how to identify a peer-reviewed journal paper. This is particularly important in areas of
specialization such as medicine, where accurate information is essential for making
informed choices and ensuring that the information used is credible.
Second, good filtering, for example, learning how to evaluate sources, allows for more
access to information. In healthcare, professionals rely increasingly on appraising
research to make evidence-based decisions, and this skill is particularly useful. Hence,
one of the main benefits lying in developing an annotated bibliography is learning how to
organize your sources. It prepares the student to compare the research and synthesize
knowledge by having the student analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each source.

6. This makes the writing better, and the material that is being taught and written about is
more clear.
Importantly, lastly, in healthcare education and practice, we need to succeed with the use
of research, which includes identifying peer-reviewed papers, assessing the credibility
and relevance of sources, and constructing an annotated bibliography.
References
Beauchamp, T. L., & Childress, J. F. (2019). Principles of biomedical ethics (8th ed.).
Oxford University Press.
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