Systematic Reviews & Other Knowledge Syntheses: Which Review is Right for You?

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Aug 7, 2025 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Thursday

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Since the NLN began setting nursing education research priorities nearly 25 years ago, nurse educators have worked diligently to generate knowledge for evidence-based nursing education, leading to substantial expansion of the body of nursing education literature. With this expansion comes the need for systematic reviews and other forms of knowledge syntheses that make evidence accessible and translatable into nursing education practice. The purpose of this webinar is to describe and compare systematic reviews and other types of knowledge synthesis and to explore the rationale for conducting one type of review versus another.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the most common types of literature reviews (i.e., knowledge syntheses).
  • Differentiate systematic reviews from other types of knowledge synthesis.
  • Identify reasons to do a systematic review or another type of knowledge synthesis.

Speaker

Lisa D. Brodersen,
EdD, PhD, CNE, RN

Dr. Brodersen is a professor at Allen College-UnityPoint Health in Waterloo, Iowa, where she currently teaches evidence-based practice and biostatistics in the graduate nursing program and serves as Coordinator of Institutional Research and Effectiveness.  She also regularly consults on the design of student and faculty research projects and assists with data analysis. Prior to joining the Allen College faculty in 1999, she worked in clinical practice for 16 years, primarily in cardiac surgical intensive care. Her current professional activities include reviewing manuscripts for several nursing education journals, including Nursing Education Perspectives and Nurse Educator. She also reviews conference abstracts and grant applications for the Midwest Nursing Research Society and Sigma. Dr. Brodersen is currently the principal investigator for scoping review about use of artificial intelligence as a teaching strategy in nursing education while also serving as a co-investigator on two other multi-site nursing education studies.  

 

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