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Flames9_RN, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Apr 5, 2015

All of my articles are really different and some of them do not support my practice change. Some of them deal with adults, pregnant women, and some deal with children. Maybe that is why mine was so long. I couldn't find 15 articles on only adults.
Maybe I will print mine out and cut it up. That's a pretty good idea!
In the big momma, do we need to have such a detailed literature review included? It doesn't look like it on the rubric. It seems more audience based, as where the lit review seemed more like a project for my own understanding.
The rubric includes abstract, problem description, solution description, implementation plan, evaluation plan, and dissemination plan. Where would the lit review even go in there? In the solution description?
The final paper seems like it will be complicated for me. I decided on doing my project on increasing continuous glucose monitoring usage. This seems like it would be most appropriate to implement in the primary care setting. Do you think I need to contact local facilities?
Ahhhh. Maybe I wont pass and I will have the opportunity to do this project again but with a more interesting topic. That would be the silver lining.

Only another $1500,lol Don't over-think things (easier said than done) Take a look at the checklist? Why now a checklist and no Rubric? lol

I was thinking doing diabetes, as my 1 sister is a diabetes RN with all the fancy initials, but no real interest in that! You have come this far..you can do it!

aimeedarling · Apr 6, 2015

Only another $1500,lol Don't over-think things (easier said than done) Take a look at the checklist? Why now a checklist and no Rubric? lol
I was thinking doing diabetes, as my 1 sister is a diabetes RN with all the fancy initials, but no real interest in that! You have come this far..you can do it!

Thanks Flames, I was only (kind of) joking. I know I should be more interested in diabetes because so many of the patients in my community have it. A patient last week told me she would eat a whole 5 lb bag of sugar lick by lick, and the bag would be gone in 2-3 days. :cheeky: Diabetes is just not something I am very passionate about I guess. Flames, I would definitely recommend finding a PICO that is personally interesting. Once you choose it your stuck with in for 5 LONG weeks!

Flames9_RN, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Apr 6, 2015

I hear ya....I hear the stories form my sister..Diabetes is interesting, don't get me wrong. I plan to do something centered around hospice care..hopefully figure that out tomorrow.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2015

Mine was 15 pages, 3540 words. It's nuts that they have a 2000 word limit on there, there's simply no way I could have done it under 2k. Maybe I'm just way too long-winded, but to answer all the aspects involved in a true review of literature (per the instructions), that's just where it ended up. What scares me is that the Review of Lit gets incorprated into the final momma, which they kind of want around 5000 total, so that tells me right there that I either need to take a weed-whacker to it now, or suffer the consequences of a final paper that is grossly too long.
I have said the same thing over and over so many different times in each paper (each a little different, but the same idea, and I can't remember where I said what?), I'm getting nervous about the final put-together. I think I will have to print them all out, cut them all up with scissors, and tape sentences and paragraphs to a bulletin board for it all to flow into one organized paper??

I'm such a visual person that I did print them all out and then go through with a pen and start chopping. However, you aren't supposed to do that. ALL the papers should flow seamlessly but mine were too repetitive in too many areas. Even though I did some serious editing, my final paper was 8059 words long and that wasn't even the addendums. My lit review was 18 pages.

PrismRN · Apr 6, 2015

Here's a tip for those of you starting Cap. Maybe you'll find this helpful, maybe not, or maybe you'll just think I'm crazy. IF I had the first 2 weeks to do over again...

In the FIRST week I would secretly do week 2's full-on Review of Literature FIRST. Just buckle down, read through them all, and do the giant assignment. Then, copy it over to another document so you have two identical giant papers. Then, pick one and whittle each paragraph down/summarize each article into a couple sentences and turn that in the first Sunday as the Sources of Literature assignment. Then you're done with week 1 and you have week 2's paper all ready to just submit the next weekend. Here's my rationale:

I feel like I did the same assignment twice, except week 2 was much much much worse. In wk 1, I read too much into each article, and it was really hard to mentally condense it down into just the few sentences they wanted. Then when wk 2 came, I had myself so confused (15 articles is a LOT when they're all basically about the same thing), I found myself re-reading all of them and basically expounding x a million on what I just did in week 1. Does that sound backwards to anyone else? :banghead:

aimeedarling · Apr 6, 2015

Here's a tip for those of you starting Cap. Maybe you'll find this helpful, maybe not, or maybe you'll just think I'm crazy. IF I had the first 2 weeks to do over again...
In the FIRST week I would secretly do week 2's full-on Review of Literature FIRST. Just buckle down, read through them all, and do the giant assignment. Then, copy it over to another document so you have two identical giant papers. Then, pick one and whittle each paragraph down/summarize each article into a couple sentences and turn that in the first Sunday as the Sources of Literature assignment. Then you're done with week 1 and you have week 2's paper all ready to just submit the next weekend. Here's my rationale:
I feel like I did the same assignment twice, except week 2 was much much much worse. In wk 1, I read too much into each article, and it was really hard to mentally condense it down into just the few sentences they wanted. Then when wk 2 came, I had myself so confused (15 articles is a LOT when they're all basically about the same thing), I found myself re-reading all of them and basically expounding x a million on what I just did in week 1. Does that sound backwards to anyone else?

YES! This is a great tip, but sadly it's too late for me to implement it. Imagine doing it all the first week, then you'd get to work ahead for week 3! It would have saved so much time.

PrismRN · Apr 6, 2015

Too bad I'm only a genius in retrospect. :sorry: :blackeye: :dead:

tokmom, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2015

All of my articles are really different and some of them do not support my practice change. Some of them deal with adults, pregnant women, and some deal with children. Maybe that is why mine was so long. I couldn't find 15 articles on only adults.
Maybe I will print mine out and cut it up. That's a pretty good idea!
In the big momma, do we need to have such a detailed literature review included? It doesn't look like it on the rubric. It seems more audience based, as where the lit review seemed more like a project for my own understanding.
The rubric includes abstract, problem description, solution description, implementation plan, evaluation plan, and dissemination plan. Where would the lit review even go in there? In the solution description?
The final paper seems like it will be complicated for me. I decided on doing my project on increasing continuous glucose monitoring usage. This seems like it would be most appropriate to implement in the primary care setting. Do you think I need to contact local facilities?
Ahhhh. Maybe I wont pass and I will have the opportunity to do this project again but with a more interesting topic. That would be the silver lining.

Once that lit review is graded, it will be submitted in it's entirety in the paper itself, right after the conclusion (I had to open up my paper and look). The last part of the paper is the reference.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2015

No, you don't have to contact anyone to implement your pretend program. I think the school wants you to know the steps of research and implementation. :)

tokmom, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2015

Here's a tip for those of you starting Cap. Maybe you'll find this helpful, maybe not, or maybe you'll just think I'm crazy. IF I had the first 2 weeks to do over again...
In the FIRST week I would secretly do week 2's full-on Review of Literature FIRST. Just buckle down, read through them all, and do the giant assignment. Then, copy it over to another document so you have two identical giant papers. Then, pick one and whittle each paragraph down/summarize each article into a couple sentences and turn that in the first Sunday as the Sources of Literature assignment. Then you're done with week 1 and you have week 2's paper all ready to just submit the next weekend. Here's my rationale:
I feel like I did the same assignment twice, except week 2 was much much much worse. In wk 1, I read too much into each article, and it was really hard to mentally condense it down into just the few sentences they wanted. Then when wk 2 came, I had myself so confused (15 articles is a LOT when they're all basically about the same thing), I found myself re-reading all of them and basically expounding x a million on what I just did in week 1. Does that sound backwards to anyone else?

Yep, it sure does and I have always wanted to suggest it, but didn't want to be blamed if people spent hours on a lit review that was incorrectly formatted, so I kept my mouth shut. I was so sick of those freaking articles by the end of those five weeks.

Winterwhite28 · Apr 6, 2015

Trends is done, thankfully! The first week of Capstone is done. I did not think I was going to be able to do it! I just finished reading week 2s assignment and sure wish I would have read it last week as I would have done week 2s assignment and cut it down for week 1s. My problem is that I barely got done what I did. I'm so sleep deprived, it's going to get worse I have a feeling! And with that....ZZZZzzzzzz

tokmom, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2015

Get some decent sleep Winter. :) Remember, you are almost finished!! You can do this.