Annotated Bibliography Assignment Essay Instructions

2 bibliographies of referred research journal articles, related to the topic question What is the guarantee that coal miners are given the most appropriate individual care in relation to their condition hence how competent are health and safety staff?.
The bibliography for each article is to include the full citation of the research journal article and a concise
description of the research project (systematic and literature reviews unacceptable for task) with a critical analysis of the article. Students will also submit a brief description and critique of the search strategy used to identify the resources used in the assignment and a copy of the research paper
Template
•Bibliographic reference
As per Assessment Handbook guidelines
•Major questions posed in the study
•Method of investigation
•Major variables of interest and their operational definitions
•Study population
•The results/findings
•Author's Conclusions and recommendations
•Evaluation

TEMPLATE for ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

An annotated bibliography is a written record of your reading which not only records bibliographic information but also records details of the research and the results of your critical evaluation. Good annotated bibliographies become a valuable resource which you can later use for assignments or for your own research. They provide you with a quick overview of what a piece of research was about and what its value to the discipline is. Remember that when you're evaluating research articles, your main focus is on the research itself and only secondarily on the report of that research.
• Use the following headings to present your annotations for the two research articles
• Bibliographic reference
o As per Assessment Handbook guidelines
• Major questions posed in the study
• Method of investigation
• Major variables of interest and their operational definitions
• Study population
• The results/findings
• Author's Conclusions and recommendations
• Evaluation
• Include references to support your evaluation with research text outlining evaluation of research i.e. Crookes & Davies 2004.
• Use the guiding questions for reviewing literature and Chapters 7 & 8 of Crookes and Davies 2004 to inform your annotations.
• Refer to subject outline Assessment Task 2 instructions
o Include a brief introduction and outline of the search strategy
o As well as a conclusion stating the relevance of the articles to your research question
o The assignment must include a reference list of the two articles and resources used to support your annotations and search activity.
o Copies of the two articles must also be submitted with the assignment


EXAMPLE of ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The following is an example of an annotated bibliography:

Bibliographic reference:
Allen, M, Knight, C, Falk, C & Strang, V 1992, ‘Effectiveness of a preoperative teaching programme for cataract patients, Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 17, pp. 303-309.
Major questions posed in the study
1) Will first-time cataract patients who participate in a preoperative teaching programme have higher scores when tested on knowledge and self-care skills and lower anxiety scores at the first postoperative home visit than those who do not receive such teaching?
2) Will patients who participate in such a programme require fewer postoperative visits by the home care nurse and require less nurse's time than subjects who do not participate in such a programme?
Method of investigation
1 1-12 hour home care preoperative teaching programme was delivered to each patient of an experimental group (n = 18) during home visits which were carried out 3 to 10 days prior to hospital admission. A control group of cataract patients (n = 18) did not take part in this programme but did receive the routine teaching done by the ophthalmologist and hospital nurses.
The diagnostic tools KST and A-State were administered to all patients before the programme and again after discharge from hospital (but within 36 hours of discharge) to assess knowledge, self-care skills and anxiety.
To test the second hypothesis, data were collected from nursing records about the type, time units and frequency of nursing care provided to patients.
Major variables of interest and their operational definitions
1) subjects needed to be first-time patients, i.e. must not have had cataract extraction previously
2) experimental group / control group: allocation into the two groups was computer-generated.
Study population
The subjects (14 men, 22 women), all over 60 yrs, were hospitalized for cataract extraction for the first time. They were divided into 2 groups, an experimental group who took part in the teaching programme and a control group who did not.

The findings
No significant differences between the experimental group and the control group on knowledge, skills and anxiety.
Results in relation to the second hypothesis showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups.
Author's Conclusions
Results may have been brought about by the incidental provision of teaching/information to the control group by a source outside the study and teaching/information may be provided by nurses in the normal course of nursing practice without them being consciously aware of carrying out a teaching role. They also point out that their assessment tool may not have provided the best assessment of knowledge.
Evaluation

• The research extends evidence about the value of patient teaching programmes to cataract patients, and could be considered useful and interesting research.

• The tool used to evaluate knowledge and self-care skills may not have been an effective tool and may have under or overestimated patient knowledge and skills and thus lessens the value of the research and the validity of the results

• The article fails to discuss and focus adequately on the results and suggest that the "home care teaching programme was as effective as the normal teaching currently conducted for patients admitted to hospital for cataract surgery" instead of stating clearly that their hypothesis was not upheld by the results

• The article fails to clearly explicate and discuss the rationale, the hypothesis and the results in the conventional sections making an evaluation of this research more difficult than it needs to be
Note for the GHMB 950 Assessment 2
• Include references to support your evaluation with research text outlining evaluation of research i.e. Crookes & Davies 2004.

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