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Article Critique/Gestational Diabetes
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A 5 page article summary and critique that analyzes a study performed by Evans and O'Brien (2005) entitled Gestational Diabetes: the meaning of an at-risk pregnancy. No additional sources cited.
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Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care
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An 8 page article critique. One of the most difficult nursing tasks is caring for patients with serious or terminal illness. Nurses involved with this level of care have to be both involved and caring, but also sufficiently detached as to avoid emotional burnout. In their qualitative study, Blomberg and Sahlberg-Blom (2007) addressed how nurses cope with the day-to-day stresses of offering care with these care difficult care settings. This critique is a summation and analysis of their study article. No additional sources cited.
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Article Critique/Hospice Patients/Symptom Intensity
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A 6 page article critique of a study conducted by McMillan and Moody (2003). The purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant differences between the reports of family caregivers regarding the level of symptom intensity for terminally ill patients and the reports of the patients themselves. The writer summarizes and evaluates the various sections of the study article. No additional sources cited.
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Article Critique/Learning Style Preferences
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A 7 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes Rassool and Rawaf's 2007 study "Learning style preferences of undergraduate nursing students." This critique argues that while the authors reveal information that has the potential to aid nurse educators in accomplishing their instructional goals, the limitations that the authors discuss in terms of the reliability and validity of their study instrument, as well as, the self-selection element in their study sample, correspondingly limits the extent to which their findings can be accurately generalized to a broader population. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khrasraw.rtf

Article Critique/Learning to Nurse Children
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A 10 page article critique which summarizes and analyzes a study conducted by Coetzee (2004) entitled "Learning to nurse children: towards a model for nursing students." The writer discusses each section of the study and compares it to other literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khcoet.rtf

Article Critique/Nurses & Tobacco
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A 7 page article critique that addresses research performed by Heath, et al (2004). The writer summarizes and analyzes the various section of this qualitative study, which addresses tobacco-use by nurses. No other sources cited.
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Article Critique/Nursing Education
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A 4 page article analysis that critiques a study performed by Aiken, et al (2003). The writer discusses the researchers' organization and presentation of their study, its significance, methodology and data, concluding that this is study was well conducted and significant. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khaiken.rtf

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients
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6 page article critique that discusses and summarizes a research study by Talerico, Evans and Strumph (2002), which investigated the causes of resistant behavior and aggression towards caregivers in nursing home residents. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khresnur.rtf

Article Critique/Nursing Older People
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A 3 page article critique drawn from Nursing Older People is a British-based nursing journal that specializes in providing informative, empirically-researched nursing articles that focus on the tasks involved in nursing the elderly. Smith (2006) conducted a research study that explored the informal practice theories that nurses employ when working with older patients, the sources of these theories and then compared them with related literature. This is a significant article because it moves beyond the scope of theory to show how nursing ideas are put into practice within a specific patient context. No additional sources cited.
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Article Critique/One-to-One Midwifery
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A 14 page research paper that offers an article critique on a study of one-to-one midwifery, plus much more. This critique evaluates this research by directly addressing the study and its design structure, but it also offers further evaluation by comparing the results of McCourt, et al (1998) with other literature on this topic, particularly focusing on more recent literature. However, in order to appreciate the significance of the one-to-one midwifery model, which the McCourt, et al, study addresses, it is also necessary to see this standard of care in light of the historical background that initiated its formulation. This topic, also, is addressed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: kh1to1.rtf