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Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography will assist in advancing your quality improvement project by facilitating critical understanding of the relevant literature. Students will be required to submit an annotated bibliography assignment due at the end of week 2. Each submission should provide annotations for 4 references. 

The annotated bibliography will be a review of the relevant literature pertaining to the proposed problem/project. Carefully select the articles you review to inform and/or support the need for your project, for example:

1. Does the literature provide supporting documentation of the existence of the problem you have identified? Your project should not be based solely on your own subjective perceptions, intuition, or opinion.
2. Does the literature support the methodology or “solution” you have selected to address the problem? It can be helpful to have a template/model to follow.
3. Does the literature point to major gaps that your project can fill? Maybe no one else has done what you propose to do. That’s great! Your study will definitely “add to our (collective) fund of knowledge.”
4. Are there published reports by others who have already done what you propose to do? If so, critique this literature, and discuss how your project can improve / expand / build on it.

The document must include a minimum 250 word one-paragraph introduction on your topic on page 1 before you begin filling in the annotations. This introduction will be developed with your first submission and then will be used again for your final paper.

Annotated references should include the following four key components:

1. Introduction – clearly defining a quality improvement initiative related to the nursing profession.
2. Full and accurate APA citation of reference.
3. Brief summary and assessment of the reference (type of research, major findings, quality and rigor of the reference, etc.)
4. Brief reflection of how the reference relates to other references included in the bibliography (How does this reference challenge, or agree with other references cited)