In first responders with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder what is the prevalence of self medication misuse with drugs and alcohol versus non users

Assessment task 1 - Literature Review

In this assessment task students are instructed to conduct a review of the literature using a systematic approach. There will be three sections to this assessment task, the creation of a flow chart that represents how the literature search was conducted including the inclusion/exclusion criteria, and the final selected papers represented in a table format highlighting the following aspects; author/year/country, methodology, participants, key findings, and a detailed description of the key findings of the selected papers. Word limit is 2000 words.

 Purpose: To develop and demonstrate skills related to reviewing nursing literature using a systematic approach.

 Description: Students will be instructed to choose a research topic of interest and conduct a review of the literature. Students are required to complete a written piece of work with the following headings: Search strategy, Table 1 Flow chart of literature search, Table 2 Selected literature Summary, Key findings, Reference list (refer to Moodle for a description of each section of this assessment task).

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Assessment task 2 - Ethics Application

Students will be expected to complete a modified ethics application template (provided on moodle), completing each section as you work through the online modules which are related to each section of the application. Word limit is 2000 words.

 Purpose: To develop skills in preparing an ethics application for a proposed research project.

 Description: Using the topic that was chosen in the first assessment task (literature review), students will need to create a proposed research project with an associated data collection tool/survey and fill in all the sections of the ethics application document. Each of the sections contained in the ethics application document will be discussed in the modules on moodle.

 Weighting: 50%