Phases of Research

Conceptual Phases

Methodological Development

Empirical Phase

Analytical Phase

Dissemination Phase

Nursing Research Phases

Assessment

Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation/Evaluation

Nursing Process Phase

1. to gain better understanding of your study focus

2. to examine gaps

3. to gain insight from previous studies

what is Related Literature for?

Relevant

Recent

Sufficient

Characteristics of Related Literature

Exposes main gaps in knowledge

helps identify general patterns

you can also identify validated scales and instruments

purposes of literature review

literature

Study

gray literature

what are the possible sources for Research?

literature

refers to the body of written works

study

speicific research project or investigation conducted to explore a question, test a hypothesis, or gather new data.

gray literature

magazines, brochures, flyers, posters, newspapers, unpublished research work

Books

professional journal articles

literature comes from what sources?

peer-reviewed research journals

unpublished theses and dissertations

government reports and others

studies comes from what sources?

newspapers

magazines

letters

interviws

poems, biographs, etc.

gray litereatures comes from what sources?

choose your topic define your question

decide on the scope of your review

select database you will use to conduct your researches

conduct yur searches and find the literature. Keep track of your searches!

steps for conducting literature review

chronologically

methodologically

thematically

ways in presenting/writing literature review

writing one paragraph per source

not analyzing contents

copying and pasting paragraph

lack of transition words

inaccurate in-text citations

some authors are not included in the reference part

what to avoid when writing related literature