Assignment Topic:
1. Why does the American Medical Association (AMA) want to limit to scope of practice for nurse practitioners?
2. By Limiting the roles of the APN, will result in a shortage of healthcare professionals who are needed to aid with providing care to the aging population.
Please use scholarly articles published within the past 5 years from The USA mostly. No Blogs or AI-generated writing. Please include Turnitin similarity report to show less than 20%.
Answer the following based on the topic above
1. Identify a current research problem related to advanced nursing practice that is of interest to you. Include WHY this is a problem. (Limit response to no more than 3 sentences). Develop a research question to provide information about the research problem.
2. Based on your research question, do you believe a qualitative or quantitative study will best answer it? Support your decision as to why you believe the answers would best be provided by the type of study you have chosen.
3. Select a middle-range theory and identify the application of nursing theories to your research problem.
Conduct a literature review.
4. Based on your literature review answer the following questions:
o If qualitative,
§ Identify the purpose of the study.
§ Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.
§ Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.
§ Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.
§ Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.
§ Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
§ Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
§ Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.
§ Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.
§ Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.
Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion