Assignment: Research Presentation
For this assignment, you will choose one article from your two critiques to present to the class during a live Conference session. You MUST submit your PowerPoint slides to your professor via Canvas before you present. Your PowerPoint slides cannot contain animation, transitions, sound, and/or video elements since these will NOT work in a Conference presentation. You will have 6 - 8 minutes to present the research.
1. Professional Appearance and Performance
Presenter has a professional appearing slide presentation, speaks clearly, and has poise. For more about professional attire, see the NSNA guidelines for presenters and conference attendees. Practice your slide presentation before class.
2. Powerpoint Slides
Slides are clear and appropriate. Slides summarize the main points, but are not themselves the presentation. Results summarized in tables or graphs. Appropriate use of color. Graphics are professional and do not distract from the presentation.
3. Time limit
Your presentation not including Q&A must be 6 - 8 minutes long.
4. Know material
Presenter is familiar and comfortable with the material. Conveys that he/she understands the research forward and backwards, inside and out.
5. Do not appear to be reading slides or notes. The Powerpoint slides are your outline (see #2). You should know the material well enough that you present without appearing to be reading note cards or a script (see #4).
6. Present research clearly and adequately
At the end of the presentation, we should understand what the researchers wanted to do, what they did, what they found, why it was good or bad, and how and whether we as professional nurses should change our practice as a result of the research.
Suggested outline for slides
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Title slide
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Research title, Authors, your name
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10 seconds
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Background
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Describe background/problem
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30 seconds
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Research objectives
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What knowledge did they seek to know or know better?
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20 seconds
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Methods
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Tell what and how they did the study; include the study classification, Response variables, factors, and sampling technique
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1-2 minutes
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Results
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Tables Tables Tables Charts
Include p values and confidence intervals if given
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1-2 minutes
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Discussion
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Summarize the discussion
Include things you think should have been discussed but were not
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1-2 minutes
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Analysis
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Tell us your opinion of the article: Tell us the positives and negatives
Tell us how the research could have been improved Tell us the implications for nursing practice
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1-2 minutes
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Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.