Occasionally you will be asked to write one as a separate assignment

Instructions for Literature review
This assignment requires the student to identity, retrieve, summarize, and synthesize relevant literature focused on the
PICO clinical question/purpose. It is anticipated that the literature review findings will be used by the DNP Project Team
to focus the DNF Project. The document should be organized with subheadings and tables that can be used to display
and organize findings. There is NO standard approach to organizing a literature review.

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A literature review is an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers,
Occasionally you will be asked to write one as a separate assignment (sometimes in the form of an annotated
bibliography—see the bottom of the next tab), but more often it is part of the introduction to an essay, research report, or
thesis.

In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what knowledge and ideas have been
established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. As a piece of writing, the literature review must be
defined by 2 guiding concept (2.g., your research objective, the problem or issue you are discussing, or your
argumentative thesis). It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set of summaries

Research articles to be used include Primary Research Studies, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analysis. The evidence
should be critically analyzed, commented on, and discussed. It is anticipated that public health documents and
professional organizational statements will be also be used in establishing the background of the problem. Please
‘summarize information about what is “known about the topic of interest’ (Moran et al., 2020, pg. 122-128)

Search Strategy: In the introduction to the literature review, provide details about your search strategy of the literature:
1) Databases searched; 2) Search terms used; 3) Search limitations (i.e. years, language, full text)

My original DNP topic is: Quality Improvement Project, Strategies to decrease opiate use in patients with major
depressive disorder.