Where can you find evidence to inform your thoughts and scholarly writing? Throughout your degree program, you will use research literature to explore ideas, guide your thinking, and gain new insights. As you search the research literature, it is important to use resources that are peer-reviewed and from scholarly journals. You may already have some favorite online resources and databases that you use or have found useful in the past. For this Discussion, you explore databases available through the Walden Library.

To Prepare:

Review the information presented in the Learning Resources for using the Walden Library, searching the databases, and evaluating online resources.
Begin searching for a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your practice area and interests you.

By Day 3 of Week 6

Post the following:

Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.

By Day 6 of Week 6

Solution:

The selected peer-reviewed article that relates to my practice and highly interests me is “Ellis, K. K., Wilkinson, M. R., Kesten, K. S., Anderson, K. M., Lyons, M. C., & Bondmass, M. D. (2017). Partnering to Scale a Graduate Nursing Program. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 13(9), e423-e431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2017.06.015”

I used the science direct database to search and retrieve this article. The difficulties I met in searching for the article include identification and decision of resources to search, how to search the articles properly, assessing the search results, decision-making on the literature to use from the source, retrieval of pertinent literature in a usable format, and decision-making of which literature to gather from each resource. These difficulties were addressed through planning the search in an effective manner, executing the search, and screening the best and most-appropriate….Please click the icon below to purchase full answer at only $5