Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General Instructions

Professional nurses must be equipped to critique scholarly literature and discern its value for application to practice. Select one current, quantitative scholarly article related to your PICOT question. Appraise the article using the General Appraisal Overview for All Studies Tool (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2023, Appendix C; see also Box 6.1 in Chapter 6). Summarize your appraisal of the article in your own words. 

Include the following sections:

1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
   1. Provide an overview of the study
      1. Purpose
      2. Study design
      3. Ethics review
   2. Describe the study
      1. Research question or hypothesis
      2. Study aims
      3. Sampling technique, sample size, and characteristics
   3. Major variables studied
      1. Independent variable
      2. Dependent variables
      3. How were the data analyzed? Were the statistics used appropriately?
      4. Were there any untoward events during the conduct of the study?
   4. Explain why and how you could use the study results in your practice to make a difference in client outcomes. If you cannot use the results, why not?
   5. Include a complete APA reference and Chamberlain Library permalink for the selected article. 

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