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Proposing Change

Proposing Change

Over the past few weeks my group and I have identified a topic, retrieved, and reviewed relevant peer-reviewed literature, and drafted and revised our project proposal. Our project proposal is on the “Effectiveness of Proning Patients Who are Suspected to or Have COVID-19.” Throughout this time, I have analyzed different discoveries about my topic and most of the information I retrieved comes back to how impactful proning patients with COVID-19 is. Proning patients isn’t a simple turn them onto their…

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Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Records

My initial thoughts about using Electronic Health Records in nursing are positive. Initially I think it’s a great way to see the patients past medical history. The EHR is great in showing patients past care, their health status, immunizations, past labs, procedures and more. This can lead to picturing/viewing the patient as a whole and factoring in their history to possibly help in their current care. I also believe it’s a great way to communicate with past providers and ask…

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Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma may be perceived differently for everyone. Some experience traumas physically, mentally, emotionally. People’s exposure to trauma impacts their psychological, physical, spiritual, environmental, and social well-belling. Trauma exposure can psychologically impact a person because it can affect their mental health. They may be psychologically suffering, hearing thoughts in their head, dealing with demons, all internal factors that they are facing that we cannot see. The physical impact of trauma will be visible. These people may lack self-care, they may have…

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Public Health and Vulnerable Populations

Public Health and Vulnerable Populations

Public Health is all health. Public health is comprised of all different types of populations and at the root are the individuals. There are many factors that influence one’s health. Those factors may be individual, environmental, and societal. These factors influence the health of vulnerable and marginalized populations in different ways. The environment in which the populations live in is a factor; whether that’s a warm or cold climate, public housing with the same ventilation or living under one roof…

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Planning Change

Planning Change

Team projects can always be a challenge, but at the same time they can turn out to be very rewarding. Working in large groups poses a challenge because that’s a lot of people to correlate schedules with, communicate with, and each person has their own brilliant ideas. That’s where the rewarding factor comes in; each team member has so much to offer to the team. I anticipate this team dissemination project, from topic proposal to dissemination of the final project…

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Influence Paper

Influence Paper

The purpose of the influence paper for this course was to research and reflect upon a current health issue. The topic my team member and I chose was the effect of the nurse-patient ratio on quality patient care. Our paper had a focus on the PICO question: In acute care settings, what is the impact of lower nurse-to-patient ratio [as compared to a higher nurse-to-patient ratio] on patient safety and quality outcomes? The articles we researched opened our eyes to the impact of the nurse to patient ratio on patient quality outcomes.

Final Reflection

Final Reflection

This team project has taught me a lot about the importance of teamwork and communication. I will take both of those characteristics into my future nursing practice because in the healthcare setting working as a team is crucial. Patient care isn’t defined to one specialty. Nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers, are some of the many specialties in healthcare that are involved in patient care. My capacity to contribute to quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives as a new nurses resulting…

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Ethical Considerations for EBP

Ethical Considerations for EBP

My understanding of the nurse’s contribution to ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings hasn’t changed since completing the ethics assignments. I still believe nurse’s help facilitate change and be there for their patients. I think it’s important for nurses to know the historical evolution and principles of research ethics to know what people had to go through along with nurses following what doctors had said. This is important so it doesn’t happen again. It is so important…

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Appraisal and synthesis

Appraisal and synthesis

I discovered that it is much more common now that patient’s aren’t experiencing quality care because healthcare is stretched thin. Nurses are working long shifts, multiple days a week, and trying to balance complicated cases and up to four patients. Some of those patients require more attention than others, therefore they’re not all receiving the same amount of care if the hospitals were adequately staffed or better yet the nurse-to-patient ratio was appropriate. My appraisal and synthesis aided in my…

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Assumptions of Ethical Considerations for EBP

Assumptions of Ethical Considerations for EBP

My assumptions about a nurse’s role in ethics regarding evidence implementation and generation is facilitating the change and taking charge. Nurses oversee a lot in their care and what works well and what doesn’t. So they can get word out about their desire to research, ask other healthcare workers questions, gathering relevant evidence, find supporting evidence that is practiced now and how they want to change that practice to what they believe works better. I think nurses contribute greatly to…

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