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Quality improvement can mean many things to different people. Depending on the goal, a person in the healthcare field may see opportunities for improvement in hand-washing, or maybe another person would like to implement better body mechanics teaching for nurses who experience frequent back pain. Whatever the motive, all people have the capability to contribute …
My understanding of the nurse’s contribution to ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings has changed since completing the ethics assignments and attending the Evidence-Based Practice classes. It became more evident to me that research was more popular and used more frequently than I had previously thought. Additionally, I learned the complexities of …
Coming into nursing, my primary focus was on the classic pillars of nursing; working on a medical-surgical floor, starting IV infusions, monitoring many patients at a time, and so on. When starting this class, I initially wondered to myself if I would end up using the information given in class as a future nurse. I …
Reflection Through evidence and appraisal, I have discovered that there is not a significant difference in the method in which people wash their hands but rather in what circumstances they choose to wash their hands. Initially, walking into this topic, I anticipated my research would lead to more of the same and things I already …
My team and I initially had composed a PICOT question that we were all interested in and believed would make a good research topic. Coming into this unit in Evidence-Based Practice, we did not anticipate creating a successful and thoughtful PICOT question would be overly difficult. However, we had a difficult time forming, re-framing, and …
An ostomy diversion is used when an individual has surgery to transform the ileum into a stoma resulting from some sort of functional anomaly associated with the digestive system. The stoma acts like the anus does for people who do not have stomas and provides a method of waste disposal. To catch the waste, the …
As a team, writing a paper may take more collaboration than when writing alone. As such, mapping out each concept before writing anything down may help keep our group organized. Once we have developed an outline, we will start writing down ideas and dividing up the sections by person. Communication will be key and we …
Going into college, I was initially interested in becoming a physician’s assistant (PA). I changed my major to nursing as a sophomore in college. I currently work as a medical-surgical LNA at Exeter Hospital. I know from working in this field that it is a lot of work and it is a good experience for …
During our clinical rotations this semester, I knew they were going to be different. COVID made most things different, so it was nothing new or unexpected. I switched my major from medical biology to nursing last year; it was a big change for me and adjusting to the new students that I did not know …
