Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal.
NUR699 Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal.
NUR699 Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal.

NUR699 Evidence Based Practice Project

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal. Can a study with limitations still be useful to your project research?

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Introduction
Literature reviews play a critical role in scholarship because science remains, first and foremost, a cumulative endeavor (vom Brocke et al., 2009). As in any academic discipline, rigorous knowledge syntheses are becoming indispensable in keeping up with an exponentially growing eHealth literature, assisting practitioners, academics, and graduate students in finding, evaluating, and synthesizing the contents of many empirical and conceptual papers. Among other methods, literature reviews are essential for: (a) identifying what has been written on a subject or topic; (b) determining the extent to which a specific research area reveals any interpretable trends or patterns; (c) aggregating empirical findings related to a narrow research question to support evidence-based practice; (d) generating new frameworks and theories; and (e) identifying topics or questions requiring more investigation (Paré, Trudel, Jaana, & Kitsiou, 2015).

NUR699 Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal
NUR699 Discuss the importance of analyzing multiple studies when gathering literature for an evidence-based project proposal

Literature reviews can take two major forms. The most prevalent one is the “literature review” or “background” section within a journal paper or a chapter in a graduate thesis. This section synthesizes the extant literature and usually identifies the gaps in knowledge that the empirical study addresses (Sylvester, Tate, & Johnstone, 2013). It may also provide a theoretical foundation for the proposed study, substantiate the presence of the research problem, justify the research as one that contributes something new to the cumulated knowledge, or validate the methods and approaches for the proposed study (Hart, 1998; Levy & Ellis, 2006).

The second form of literature review, which is the focus of this chapter, constitutes an original and valuable work of research in and of itself (Paré et al., 2015). Rather than providing a base for a researcher’s own work, it creates a solid starting point for all members of the community interested in a particular area or topic (Mulrow, 1987). The so-called “review article” is a journal-length paper which has an overarching purpose to synthesize the literature in a field, without collecting or analyzing any primary data (Green, Johnson, & Adams, 2006).