ASSIGNMENT: ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 3: RESEARCH ANALYSIS NURS 6003 Discussion

ASSIGNMENT: ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 3: RESEARCH ANALYSIS NURS 6003 Discussion

As I began my search for a peer reviewed article, I found Walden University’s research database to be very easy to use. I did a dual search using CINAHL and MEDLINE that proved to be very useful. The article I chose was entitled A critical interpretive analysis of the intersection of domestic violence with parental issues of mental health and substance misuse. I found this article to be very interesting because it touched on many areas that interest me in the mental health field. The article looked at the relationship between children and families who have experienced domestic and family violence (DFV), parental issues relating to alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and mental health (MH).

One thing I found very interesting was “the impact of domestic and family violence too easily disappears when other problems emerge.” (Isobe, Healey, & Humphreys, 2020) I found this information to be very surprising because I would never have thought DFV would be discounted when another issue came about. They also identified some weaknesses in practice and spoke about some strategies to improve outcomes. The study concluded that “until practices are developed in MH, AOD services to identify and respond to DFV-specifically fathers who use violence-and the intersection between DFV, AOD, and MH sectors is strengthened, the lives of women and children may not improve.” ( Isobe, Healey, & Humphreys, 2020)

Isobe, J., Healey, L., & Humphreys, C. (2020). A critical interpretive synthesis of the intersection of domestic violence with parental issues of mental health and substance misuse. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(5), 1394–1407. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12978

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My approach to identify and analyze peer-reviewed research is based on critical reading as well as evaluation of articles to identify the best that is in line with my topic. Through intensive reading of materials from different library databases, I was able to classify these publications as either peer-reviewed or not and also identified their relevance for clinical research (Cooper et al., 2018). Notably, peer-reviewed articles are also checked in terms of the quality of the publication by analyzing accuracy and assessing validity of the research. For me to achieve this, I refined my search strategy by selecting relevant topic and ensured that the results in the manuscript were relevant to the present study by selecting the latest publication (Krishnamurthy & Wood, 2018).

I found data search skills and evaluation of types of resources in scholarly journals as two strategies that I would use in finding peer-reviewed articles. The first strategy enhances my ability to retrieve materials from a search database (Lefebvre et al., 2019). It is always a challenge for a majority of students to evaluate relevant materials for their studies but with the data search skills, one can categorize databases that are relevant to their area of research and select keywords to limit their searches. The second strategy on the other hand singles out articles that are peer-reviewed and published for use in scholarly journals (Cooper et al., 2018). These two strategies ensure that quality materials are selected so that I gain adequate knowledge for successful completion of my MSN program.

In order to find peer-reviewed resources in the future, I intend to use online library databases found at Walden University library and beyond. Database resources from an online library contain numerous peer-reviewed journals with special catalogs organized in an alphanumerical order from A to Z (Krishnamurthy & Wood, 2018). It then means that database search can be useful in locating published materials by selecting an alphabetical listing that coincides with the topic of research. The use of online library databases is also easy to navigate as one opts to find relevant information during studies (Tricco et al., 2018). As an MSN student, library databases will be instrumental in providing consistent information in a secure form as they can only be accessed at the Walden University library by students or staff who have valid passwords.