Nursing Research in Canada Chapter 5:
Finding and Appraising the Literature
Questions and Correct Answers
Purposes of a Literature Review - correct answers:to develop a strong knowledge base to carry out a
research study or an evidence informed practice project
A review of the literature helps you do the following: - correct answers:1. uncover one or more new
practice interventions or obtain supporting or contrary evidence for revising, maintaining, or stopping
current interventions, protocols, and policies
2. promote evidence informed revision and development of new practice protocols, policies and projects
or activities related to the nursing practice
3. generate clinical questions
-determine what is known and unknown about a subject, concept or problem
-determine gaps, consistencies, and inconsistencies
-discover conceptual traditions used to examine problems
-generate research questions and hypotheses
-determine appropriate research design, methodology, and analysis for answer research question or
hypotheses
-determine need for replication or refinement of study
-synthesize the strength and weaknesses and findings available of studies on a topic of problem
Literature Review - correct answers:the process of reading all the available published material about a
research site and/or research issues, usually done before fieldwork begins
Literature review purpose for knowledge - correct answers:-reviewing literature
-reading to learn
Literature review purpose for a study - correct answers:-known vs unknown
-gaps
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