Use keywords: nurse to patient ratios, healthcare recruitment, workload, flexible scheduling.
1. Write a brief overview of the issue, describe the professional relevance of this topic, describe any professional experience with this topic.
2. Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to this health care issue. Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer reviewed journal articles published during the past 3-5 years that relate to to this topic. Use keywords above.
3. Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find. Determine if the source if from a academic peer reviewed journal article, is current, or if information in the article is relevant.
4. Analyze academic peer reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide a rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In the annotated bibliography:
*identify the purpose of the article
*summarize the information
*Provide rationale for inclusion of each article
*include the conclusions and findings of the article
*paragraph form approx. 150 words
*list the full reference for the source in APA format
*references are in alphabetical order, double spaced, and hanging indents
5. Summarize what you have parented while developing an annotated bibliography.
*list main points you learned from your research
*summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic