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Influence Paper

Influence Paper

The purpose of this influence paper is to discuss the relationship between nursing shift lengths and patient safety. We devised a PICO question aimed at determining what effect that nursing shifts had on reported patient safety and quality of care. The reason for this research is outlined in the following excerpt: “Throughout time, nurses have been at the forefront of healthcare and medicine, providing some of the best patient care. Nurses are responsible for delivering the safest patient care, and…

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Final Reflection

Final Reflection

Reflect on what you learned from this team project and how you will apply this in your future nursing practice. Think about your audience, which could be a potential employer in your first nursing position. What would you want them to know about your capacity to contribute to quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives as a new nurse resulting from working as a team to complete this project? Analyze and reflect on your team process. What did you discover about yourself as a team member?…

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Ethical Considerations for EBP

Ethical Considerations for EBP

After completing the ethics assignments, I realized even more so that nurses play a huge role in the contribution to ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings. Especially after watching the film “Miss Ever’s Boys” in which the main character is a nurse who participated first hand in the famous Tuskegee Study. This film demonstrates just how important nurses are in maintaining ethical conduct for all patients. Miss Evers was basically caught in between taking orders from the…

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From inquiry through discovery

From inquiry through discovery

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…

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Planning the Journey

Planning the Journey

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…

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