Overall, our audience responded very well to our presentation. They all seemed to be in agreement with our research findings. Since this unit is a cardiac telemetry unit, alarm fatigue is a very prominent and relevant issue to these nurses. Even just the few weeks that we were there for clinical, our team agreed that alarm fatigue is real and we were even affected by it, so we couldn’t imagine working 12+ hour shifts and not feeling any symptoms of…
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?…
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…
