I personally am not familiar with the nurse’s role in ethics regarding evidence implementation and generation. I feel like nurses probably do have a big role in it, as they are the ones who implement most of the EBP and are directly observing their patients when they do it. I would assume that nurses play a major role in evidence generation, as they are the ones who spend a majority of time doing hands on tasks with their patients. They…
Through evidence appraisal and synthesis, I discovered much more about my topic than I had known about it. I had always been aware of nurse burnout, but I didn’t realize how much of an impact nurse shift length actually had on patient safety. While doing extensive research and analysis of sources, I was able to find significant statistics about just how big of an impact it had, by significant decreases in overall patient safety. My overall opinion on the topic…
One specific interaction that I found that demonstrated therapeutic communication was towards the beginning of the interview, and one team member responded to the patient and said, “I understand, that must be really difficult for you.” This is an example of validation and can help the patient feel understood and that they are in a safe place to discuss their feelings, which was the case as the patient began to open up more after that. I also liked how someone…
This EBP journey so far has definitely been challenging but it has also been a great learning experience. Since choosing a topic and developing a PICOT question, we found that our PICOT question was a little too broad and we were finding way too many articles than we could handle, and more than necessary. We realized that we needed to revise our question. We started with the effects of nursing shift lengths on quality of care AND patient safety, and…
I anticipate that this team project will be a good representation of how collaboration in healthcare occurs. There is a team of healthcare professionals who work collaboratively on various tasks, projects, patient experiences, etc. They need to be professional and accountable for completing their portions, while also communicating well with other team members. By doing this project, it will help me be able to apply these skills to my future nursing practice. We have decided to create a communication plan…
1. Personally, I believe there is so much stigma surrounding mental illness due to a lack of knowledge regarding mental illness in the first place. Throughout time, mental illness has been portrayed so poorly by the media, such as old TV shows or movies, that create a bad image for individuals suffering from it. A lot of mainstream media throughout time has portrayed individuals with mental illness as “psychos” or “being the bad/evil guy”. And if you think about it,…
This medication reconciliation has taught me a lot about the process, as well as beginning to think like a nurse and address specific concerns about medications for a patient. For this specific patient, I noticed a few substantial safety concerns, specifically related to the patient’s diabetes. A good amount of the medications the patient was on, had the potential to interfere with blood glucose levels significantly. This raised some concern for me, as they already have issues with maintaining adequate…
The Smallest Action Makes the Biggest Impact Before beginning my first clinical, I was absolutely terrified. I did not know what to expect and I was so afraid of the endless possibilities that could happen. Most of these fears were trivial things, such as a patient not liking me, and that thought would make me spiral into contemplating whether or not I would be a good nurse. I don’t know why that was my biggest fear going into it, but…
Nursing is a collaborative form between concrete, scientific ideas and executing them in empathetic and compassionate ways, that it makes it an art form. Many people talk about how nursing is a work of heart and a work of art – as not everyone possesses the quality of compassion and empathy enough to practice as a nurse. In the painting titled, “Caring A Tradition in Nursing” by Marylyn Boyd (attached below), there is a depiction of caring and compassion that…
Nursing Module 3: Knowledge and Clinical Judgement This module really reiterated the fact that nurses need to have extensive knowledge when they are in practice, and knowledge about a variety of topics as well. When it comes to nursing, it is not just knowing diseases and their symptoms. It is also knowing how to communicate effectively, knowing legal and ethical practices, pharmacology, mathematic calculations, nutrition, IT knowledge, and much more. In order to learn all of this information, nurses must…
