create a focussed clinical question and demonstrate a search strategy relating to that question.

Question Formation, Identifying the Literature, and the Search Process

(300 words approx.)

Based on the clinical /nursing subject and the skills developed in the lectures and workshops. You should create a focussed clinical question and demonstrate a search strategy relating to that question.

The reader should be able to replicate your search using the information that you give.

Please use tables to illustrate and summarise your strategy; this will improve the presentation and facilitate the word count.

1. • ▪  Briefly explain how you arrived at your question,
   • ▪  Tables can be used for illustration of the following:
     • −  The use of SPICE, PICO or alternative.
     • −  Identify which databases and other sources you used to find evidence

and why, including the search terms and how you selected them.

1. • • −  Your search (e.g., keywords used) and the inclusion/exclusion

parameters you applied (e.g., dates, i.e., national, international articles,

other limitations), with justification for all your decisions.

1. • ▪  Please include a copy of your search as an appendix (this does not count in the

word limit, but you can refer to it).