You will demonstrate your knowledge of the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate best practice with clinical expertise and patient care, formulate clinical questions and assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources.

This will be conducted through varying tasks within a workbook and involves a mixture of long and short-answer responses, research, and reviews. The workbook will have points awarded to each task with the accumulation of these points being the result.

You must follow the workbook instructions and complete all its tasks in the spaces provided within the workbook.

The workbook will be available on the unit’s Moodle page.

Assessment criteria for this assessment is detailed in the workbook and available on the unit’s Moodle page.

As this is a written assessment, you must include appropriate in-text referencing and a reference list.

This workbook is worth 60% of your overall unit mark.

This written assessment will develop your skills in evidence-based research. You must write an annotated bibliography on five (5) scientific journal articles and a critical summary that will answer your clinical question.

Use the PICO format to design a clinical question. Search the literature for journal articles related to your clinical question. Make notes on the literature search process as this will form your methodology.

You may find many articles related to your topic however only the most relevant and recent five (5) articles are required for your annotated bibliography. Each of the five (5) identified articles will require a bibliographic annotation. Each bibliographic annotation will be 200-250 words.

Your submission must include the following :

• Title: A title that is pertinent to what is discussed in the assessment and reflects the clinical question
• Keywords: A minimum of four (4) keywords. Keywords reflect the clinical question and were used for your literature search
• Clinical Question: A valid clinical question that can be researched
• Methodology: Describe the methods you used to perform your literature search. Aspects that need to be covered include the databases searched, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the search terms used
• Bibliography: Each of the five (5) articles are to be presented individually. Each article's full reference should be presented in the Harvard referencing style and accompanied by a bibliographic annotation that includes the quality of the journal or the number of citations the article has attracted, the credibility of the author(s) and their affiliation(s), and a summary of the key findings in the article. 
• Critical Summary: A critical summary of the literature findings, answering your clinical question
• Reference List: Any additional in-text references used in the summary will need to be included in the reference list however the five (5) annotated bibliographic references do not need to be referenced in the reference list.
• PDF Copies of the five (5) selected articles: When you upload your annotated bibliography to Moodle for submission, you must include the 5 articles used as separate PDFs. The PDFs are to be labelled with the first author and the year of publication e.g. Jackson, 2020. 

Please refer to the marking rubric for this assessment. 

The annotated bibliography will be assessed in accordance with the marking rubric and information provided on the unit’s Moodle page. The following criteria are key points to be included:

• The written assessment should be presented in an essay format.

• The written assessment must address each of the main topic tasks as detailed in the task description.

• Avoid superficial points or comments and be clear and concise.

• For all additional references you must include in-text referencing as required and a reference list 

There is a word limit of 2000 words (+/- 10%).

This assessment is worth 40% of your overall unit mark.