NURS28358 GCU Week 1 Fall Prevention among Older Adults Discussion
Discussion Question
In this course, each of you will bedeveloping a research proposal. Our focus this week is to identify aproblem specific to your role option that is amenable to an innovativesolution.
Based on your specialty role option (i.e.,Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informaticist, NurseAdministrator), identify a potential problem (topic) that you would liketo investigate through nursing research. Begin by reading the AmericanAssociation of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) position statement onnursing research (Nursing Research).
Next explore South’s Online Library andconduct a search to locate a minimum of three nursing research articlesthat have addressed the problem you have identified. The literature maynot be older than 5 years. After reading the literature respond to thefollowing:
- Note your role specialization and briefly describe the problem youare interested in researching and why this is of interest to you.
- Discuss your library search strategies and briefly summarize theliterature you reviewed. Focus your discussion on the “problem” and howthe literature you identified provides evidence of the existence of theproblem.
- Include in your discussion a potential innovation that you might consider as a solution to the problem identified.
- Include citations/references in APA style format, using citations where appropriate.

Quantitative Annotated Bibliography
In this weeks discussion question you were asked to consider apotential problem (appropriate to your role option) that you would liketo investigate through nursing research. For this assignment you willreview current research from Souths Online Library and provide acritical evaluation on that research through an annotated bibliography.An annotated bibliography is a brief summary and analysis of the journalarticle reviewed. For more information on annotated bibliographiesplease visit Purdues OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab
A total of two annotated bibliographies are to besubmitted (not to exceed one page each). The articles must come fromnursing scholarly literature and may not be older than 5 years sincepublication. Please note that the articles must be research based andreflect a quantitative methodology (review our reading assignments). Webpages, magazines, textbooks, and other books are not acceptable.
Each annotation must address the following critical elements:
- Explanation of the main purpose and scope of the cited work
- Brief description of the research conducted
- Value and significance of the work (e.g., studys findings, scope ofthe research project) as a contribution to the subject underconsideration
- Possible shortcomings or bias in the work
- Conclusions or observations reached by the author
- Summary as to why this research lends evidence to support the potential problem identified specific to your role option.
Submission Details:
- Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
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