Locate the literature review section in Baker et al's 2015 article "Delirium: Why are nurses confused?" Summarize using your own words from one of the study/literature findings. Be sure to identify which study you are summarizing. Discuss how the author's review of literature (studies) supported the research purpose/problem. Share something that was interesting to you as you read through the literature review section. Describe one strategy that you learned that would help you create a strong literature review/search for evidence. Share your thoughts on the importance of a thorough review of the literature.

Many of the studies discussed in the literature section of this article found that educating nurses about dementia was correlated with positive outcomes for patients, such as less time in the hospital (Meako, Thompson, & Cochrane, 2011; Tabet et al., 2005). Different researchers also assessed how much nurses know about delirium in patients.
For example, Hare and colleagues (2008) assessed over 1,000 nurses about their knowledge of delirium and its risk factors. They found that the nurses in their study had better general knowledge of delirium than they did about the risk factors for delirium. Another study by Fisk and colleagues (2007) used case vignettes to determine if nurses could distinguish different types of dementia. In this study, the nurses were better able to identify dementia than to distinguish dementia from DSD (delirium superimposed on dementia) symptoms. There were other studies mentioned in the literature section that you can summarize.
The researchers used the literature review to inform their research questions, including their assessment of how much the nurses in their study knew about delirium and how much the nurses knew about the risk factors for delirium. These questions came directly from the results of the literature review, which suggested that many nurses do not have a general understanding of delirium and do not understand the risk factors for delirium. As other studies have found that nurses need more education about these conditions, these are pertinent questions to ask in this study.
You can think about what is most interesting to you in this study. In general, one strategy that researchers can use in literature reviews is to ask a question (such as what nurses know about delirium) and look up the relevant studies about this question. It is important to conduct a literature review so that your study can build on previous studies and can ask the right questions that continue to advance the research in these areas.