Assessment Requirements:
Within one single document, you will need to produce four (4) pieces or sections of written work. This
patchwork assignment involves a variety of written tasks and will enable you to demonstrate your learning
across the module learning outcomes. You will need to produce three (3) written critiques of original / primary
research. The three critiques should demonstrate your knowledge of diverse issues such as, different types of
research methods and design, different populations or different research issues such as ethics, governance, bias,
sampling, reliability / validity and other aspects. You may choose to include papers reporting on similar
populations/methods, but which have differing findings from each other. Select one quantitative and two
qualitative or vice versa, or one quantitative, one qualitative and a mixed method approach. The final piece of
your patchwork assignment should be a written reflective account of how your choice of research articles
critiqued, and your learning derived from critiquing them, have helped shaped your own learning journey
towards becoming an accomplished evidenced based mental health nurse. Each of your four (4) written pieces
should be around 500 words in length (+/-10%).
For the written three critiques, you may elect to use a recognised critiquing framework. Examples of such
systematic methods of critiquing research can be found at the following published sources, all freely available
online;
Caldwell, K., Henshaw, L., & Taylor, G. (2011). Developing a framework for critiquing health research: An early
evaluation. Nurse Education Today, 31(8), e1-e7. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2010.11.025
Coughlan, M., Cronin, P., & Ryan, F. (2007). Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. part 1: Quantitative
research. British Journal of Nursing, 16(11), 658-663. doi:10.12968/bjon.2007.16.11.23681
Cutcliffe, J., & Ward, M. (2014). Critiquing nursing research (2nd ed.). Luton: Andrews UK.
Ryan, F., Coughlan, M., & Cronin, P. (2007). Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. part 2: Qualitative
research. British Journal of Nursing, 16(12), 738-744. doi:10.12968/bjon.2007.16.12.23726
In addition, you may choose to use the CASP that you have been introduced to during seminars / lectures.
You can access a wide range of resources designed to support and guide student learning for assignments by
clicking on http://academic-skills.health.herts.ac.uk/Links to an external site.
Additional details;
You will need to submit as one document in four sections. The first three will provide your written critique and
the final will provide your reflective account. At the head of each critique, you must provide a valid hyperlink or
full reference to the chosen research articles. You must provide one single reference list at the end of your
work. The reference list (and citations) must be consistent with HSK referencing guidelines.
Assessment Requirements: Within one single document, you will need to produce fo
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