The Research Pathway: Mastering the NURS FPX 4025 Assessment Series

Phase One: Cultivating a Critical Analytical Lens

The competency forged here is immediately practical, empowering nurses to be discerning consumers of new clinical evidence, guidelines, and practice innovations. This critical first task, which establishes the essential analytical toolkit for all scholarly work, is the focus of NURS FPX 4025 Assessment 1.

Phase Two: Achieving Synthesis of Evidence

By leveraging critical appraisal skills to build a holistic understanding of a practice problem, the student creates a rigorously justified foundation for proposing new solutions or investigations. This integrative work, which marks the evolution from critic to synthesizer, is central to the objectives of NURS FPX 4025 Assessment 2.

Phase Three: Designing a Scholarly Proposal

It marks the definitive tra