...Reading Research Literature #2 Guidelines and Grading Rubric – Week 6 Purpose The student will read research literature to determine the informed consent, study setting, sample size, data collection procedures, reliability and validity, demographic information, variables, data analysis, figures, and conclusions. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO 2: Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO #4 and 8) CO 4: Evaluate published nursing research for credibility and lab significance related to evidence-based practice. (PO #4 and 8) Due Date: Submit to the Reading Research Literature #2 basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 6. Requirements 1. Download the research articles from the Chamberlain library. Retrieve the following research articles: Sanford, J., Townsend-Rocchicciolli, J., Horigan, A., & Hall, P. (2011). A process of decision making by caregivers of family members with heart failure. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 25(1), 55–70. http://proxy.devry.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/853503862/354CEF3F10A4D9CPQ/6?accountid=147674 Schwarz, K. A., Mion, L. C., Hudock, D., & Litman, G. (2008). Telemonitoring of heart failure patients and their caregivers: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing, 23, 18–26. http://proxy.devry.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost...
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...Critical Appraisal 1Faith Rodriguez BSN-RNNURS5326: Research for Advanced Nursing PracticeSeptember 21, 2015Dr. Jana Saunders | Name and describe the theory that is used in your assigned primary research article. (1 paragraph) | The theory of self-regulation is the theoretical base and method in the research study to examine the use of emotion regulation and goal-directed behavior in an attempt to improve sleep behaviors. Self-regulation is the process in which a person has perceived illness cognition, a patient’s own implicit common sense beliefs about their illness. There are five cognitive dimensions of these beliefs: identity; perceived cause of illness; time line; consequences; curability and controllability (Fowler, Kirschner, Kuiken, & Baas., 2007, p. 223). This process occurs over three stages of interpretation, coping, and appraisal (Fowler et al., 2007). In the research study, “Using Mental Imagery to Deliver Self-Regulation Techniques to Improve Sleep Behaviors,” the efficacy of behavioral interventions were geared toward improving the sleep behavior for working adults with the use of mental imagery undertakings that were designed with the theory of self-regulation principles. More specifically, the main attitude is where the patient focuses their thoughts, emotions, and behavior in order to achieve their desired outcome, a sort of homeostasis, if you will. The use of imagery and implementation intention imagery are used in order to reduce...
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...essay I will be reflecting on an incident from practice, by drawing on developing knowledge, understanding and the application of professional studies. Reflection offers an opportunity to learn through an experience. This allows us to develop or sustain effective practice (Johns, 2000). I will be using the Gibbs (1988) reflective framework to structure my reflection (see appendix A). I find this framework very easy to follow, and as Clodagn (2003), explains it allows a person to implement alternative actions to an event, if followed. The incident will be described and the influence of key issues relating to ethical theories and decision-making, illness journeys and lay and professional perspectives will be explored. Principles of nursing models will be looked at and their contribution to individual patient care. I will also look at resource management, quality assurance and the role of evidence-based practice. For the purpose of this essay, to maintain confidentiality, the patient will be referred to as Mr Charlie Wood, (NMC code of professional conduct 2002; 5.1). Incident The incident occurred when I was a student on a medical ward. Mr. Wood, age 80 had been admitted to hospital following a stroke. From this he had lost the ability to mobilise and speak effectively. He was a very dependent gentleman and counted on the nurses to undertake all aspects of his care. His wife, whose name has also been changed for confidentiality reasons (NMC 2002), was very dedicated...
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...Influences of Health Care Research HCS/465 February 22nd, 2016 Dawn Bricker Influences of Health Care Research In this paper we will discuss an innovation that has been developed in the last 20 years that has influenced the health care industry. That innovation is telemedicine. Telemedicine What is telemedicine? According to the American Telemedicine Association, “Formally defined, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology.” They continue, ” Starting out over 40 years ago with demonstrations of hospitals extending care to patients in remote areas, the use of telemedicine has spread rapidly and is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operations of hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumer’s homes and workplaces.” This innovation has lasted 40 years and has continued to gain traction and popularity in recent years due to the advances in technology. There are many benefits for telemedicine. Improved access is very important, given the provider shortages throughout the world, in both rural and urban areas; telemedicine has a unique capacity to increase service to millions of new patients. Reducing or containing...
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...Nursing, as a profession, continues to be a growing and changing entity. As nurses, we must consider that our future is going to be much different than our past. This presentation will review four major topics that are worth consideration, and hopefully provide food for thought about each nurse’s plans and goals for his or her own career in the future. We will discuss evidence-based practice, nursing theory, research, and nursing roles and opportunities. Each of these topics includes a myriad of ideas, publications, and opportunities for self assessment and growth. Evidence-based nursing, evidenced-based practice, and evidence-based medicine are all based on the idea that health care treatment has transitioned from “practice that was based on intuition, experience, clinical skills and guesswork” to practice based in science (Chitty, 2010, p. 258). This has allowed nurses to make decisions based on research, and to provide the most skilled, advanced, and expert care. Nurses should know where to find research to support evidence-based care decisions. According to Ciliska, Haynes, and Marks (2013), a nurse could review textbooks, online data bases, journal articles, and the internet. One should consider that both consolidated and distilled information resources are available, and remember that distilled information resources do not always provide the most accurate and up to date information. The consolidate resources can be plentiful and one may have some difficulty choosing...
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...Services Founder/President of the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (www.natho.org) April 24, 2012 Introducing Mark Stagen • Founder/CEO of Emerald Health Services • Founded Emerald Health Services in 2002 • Emerald Health Services ranked number 185 in Inc. Magazine's 2007 'Inc. 500 list' in the category of fastest growing companies in the United • Mr. Stagen was awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the Greater Los Angeles region in 2007 • Founded the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO) in 2008 2 Today’s Agenda • A Look at Today’s Healthcare Workforce • Reviewing the KPMG U.S. Hospital Nursing Labor Costs Study Results • Strategies for Optimizing the Nursing Workforce 3 Learning Objectives • Understand how to successfully blend full-time and contingent labor to achieve financial and patient care goals. • Develop proactive contingent staffing strategy to attract highest quality nurses. • Leverage new research to understand the impact of contingent staffing on quality and patient outcomes. 4 State of the Healthcare Workforce • Healthcare employment up 360,000 in last 12 months1 • The average age of a Registered Nurse is 472 • Nurses looking at job changes3 – 42% are not satisfied with their current job – 24% plan to seek new employment if economic recovery continues – 32% plan to take steps to leave nursing in the next 1-3 years 1 Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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...Registered Nursing September 26, 2010 Exploring Registered Nursing I am the oldest of my mother’s six children: five girls and a boy. There is a 2 ½ years gap between me and my first sibling, 10 years between me and the third child and 14, (almost 15), years between me and the last child. I can remember how excited I was when I first felt my second sister kick in my mother’s tummy. I couldn’t believe there was a whole human inside of her stomach! I remember looking at my mother, and every other pregnant woman I met after that, with amazement. I was simply in love and amazed with the process of child-bearing. From that day forward I knew that I wanted to know everything there was to know about the women’s body and the reproduction process. I wanted other women and men to see just how beautiful, amazing and unique the woman’s body was. As I got older, I learned there was another side to the story. I learned there were some women who could not bear children. I wanted to know why. I wanted to find ways to help them. I decided that I would go into the gynecology field of medicine as a nurse practitioner. I wanted to be an educator of women. I wanted to teach women about their bodies, I wanted to help them learn how to care for themselves so that they could be healthy; I wanted to help them deal when they weren’t healthy. As I learned more about registered nursing, I found that there are various types of registered nurses, various educational paths to nursing, and an...
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...Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Person may represent an individual, a family, a community or all humankind. Health represents a state of well-being as defined by the individual or mutually decided on by a individual and a nurse. Environment represents the person’s physical surroundings, the community, or the universe and all it contains. Nursing is the practice of the science and art of the discipline (George, 2011). Metaparadigm pertains to the core concepts of a particular discipline. Until the 1990's there was general agreement in the literature that the metaparadigm of the discipline of nursing consisted of four major concepts: person, health, environment, and nursing (George, 2011). Concepts are thoughts believed to be true. Concepts can either be concrete or abstract in nature and can be observed or experienced through one’s reality. Concepts are the elements used to generate theories. Chinn and Kramer (2004) define a theory as “a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that projects a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena” (p.58). Theories are not a fact or a scientific law which produce the same results 100% percent of the time. Theories can provide possible and temporary explanations to phenomena that are ever changing as new evidence emerges. Simply stated, the theory suggests a direction in how to view facts and events (George, 2011). The degree of predictability surrounding a theory is the research that is gathered by using different...
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...Nursing practice is an act of providing care to the patients. In providing care to the patients, the nurses implement a nursing care plan which is based on initial condition of the patient. It is based on a specific nursing theory. Following nursing theory and nursing research side by side is a must for patient care and nursing practice. Nurse Practice Act ascertains the protection of the public from harm. The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) sets out the scope of practice and responsibilities for RNs and formulates the rules ands regulations which specify the implementation of the law. Certain Formal training is required for licensure which is checked by the Nursing practice act. Each state board of nursing in the U.S. develops different NPA for that state. The scope of nursing practice includes the sets of duty that a nurse needs to perform in her job which can vary from place to place and state to state. It is necessary for travel nurses to learn the nurses' scope to perform their work properly. Familiarization with NPA and nursing scope is necessary to perform the work properly. It is necessary for the nurses to familiarize with the new changes in NPA and scope within their state. Just acquiring degree or medical qualifications is not enough for the nurses to perform their job. Also, experience or observation in the course of your job is a must. In addition to your NPA you also need to be familiar with your present job description and the rules of your facility. There...
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...Michelle Valentine D. Scarlett 4th block Research Paper 20110317 Word count: 1,411 Number of pages: 7 I want my future career to be a registered nurse (RN). I have wanted to be a registered nurse since I was the age of ten. The main reason I wanted to be a registered nurse is because I want to help and serve others in my community. There are many different types of environments in which a registered nurse can work. A registered nurse, regardless of their work setting, treat patients, educate patients and the public about various medical conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and family members…record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.(www.bls/oco/ocos083.htm) Some may work to help promote general health. They may also run general screenings and immunization clinics, blood drives, and public seminars on various conditions. Some may even provide direction to licensed practical nurses (LPN) and nursing aids regarding patient care. (www.bls/oco/ocos083.htm) Their specific work various from one registered nurse to another. There are generally four ways to specialize as a registered nurse. One way to specialize is they may work in a particular setting or type of treatment. Others may specialize in specific health conditions. A...
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...development framework, which should be considered when determining the actions of nursing practice. These five domains are clinical skills and knowledge, therapeutic relationships, professional relationships, professional development and the advancing practice through innovation and research (UMHS). As nurses it is our responsibility to know our scope of practice in our home state and any state we practice in. Also, we must continue to educate ourselves in our profession as health care continues to change and stay current with the professional development framework of nursing. As an agency nurse and working in different states it is emperative to know the scope of practice. Even though hospitals have their own policy and procedures, it is always best to refer to scope of nursing practice for that state. I have found in my travels that more times than not, I was asked or told it was okay to perform a practice outside of my scope. Employers as well are responsible for providing nursing with policy and procedures, orientating nursing adequately to ensure the nurse understands her role and responsibilities and given the resources to maintain the ability to provide safe patient care. (CRNM). It is the framework of the domains that guides nurses to keep on the path of continuum care and also up to date on technology and education. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the nurse to determine what is within the nursing practice based on the scope of practice, standard of practice, nurse practice...
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...There are many nursing schools in the United States but to make the list of top 30 leading-edge nursing schools you have to show at least one of the following criteria amazing architecture, cutting edge technology/infrastructure, world class facilities, world class faculty, world class opportunities for experience, recognition by other publications like the US News & World Report. The top 10 nursing schools in America are Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Washington University, University of California-Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado, Emory University, University of North Carolina, and New York University. Nurses work in a widespread selection of medical settings and treat a...
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...procedures of the facility. This is done to ensure that the new policy falls within the scope of practice and is in compliance with the policies and procedure of the facility. The scope of practice defines the who, what, where, when, why and how of nursing practice (rn.com). Following the verification regarding scope of practice I would take the following steps: * Meet with hospital administration to brief them on the physician’s request and give them a time line in which I plan to present to them my findings on the procedure. * Follow up with the the state board to ensure that this is within the nursing process of: : • Assessment—gathering and validating client health data, strengths, risks, and concerns • Diagnosis—analyzing and processing client data to identify appropriate nursing diagnoses∗ • Planning—developing interventions to solve identified problems and build on client strengths • Implementation—delivering nursing interventions and documenting the planned care • Evaluation—determining the effectiveness of the care delivered The American Nurses Association (ANA), in its publication Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (2004), uses the nursing process as the framework for professional nursing practice. The nursing process is a systemic,...
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...Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Christopher Vinson NUR/513 January 1, 2015 Historical Development of Nursing The historical development of nursing today is based upon the lives of many, their contributions, sacrifices and experiences. These things brought about renovations in patient care. Different ways of thinking led to research, theories and evidenced based practice. The importance of studying nursing history has led to overall progression of nursing as a profession. In order to fully study the historical development of nursing we need to study all aspects of nursing science throughout time, explain the relationships between nursing science and our profession, as well as influences of other disciplines on the development of nursing. Time Line Specific Years, Theories, Theorists, and Nursing Historical Events Prior to the 17th century. Prior to the 17th century to the 19th century, nursing care included basic hygiene, and primarily comfort needs. These were carried out by Nuns, and other religious groups (Craven & Hirnle, 2003). Nursing could possibly be the oldest profession. It started with wet nurses, who delivered babies, cared for them and their mothers (Weatherford, 2014). 19th century. Florence Nightingale developed the Environmental Theory. During the Crimean War she noticed more soldiers died of disease then of battlefield injuries. Through research she believed that dirt, and lack of cleanliness led to diseases. She instituted...
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...Technology in Nursing The Webster Dictionary defines technology as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry (Webster Dictionary). In the years of the nursing industry, technology has always played a vital role. Even though people might not have always called it ‘technology’, it was always present. Technology was small in the past, it is here today and it will be even bigger tomorrow. The world is covered in technology everywhere you go. When you walk into a hospital everything you see has something to do with technology whether it is the automatic door that let you in or if it is the machine that made your coffee. Technology plays an important role in everyday life but at the same time, can cost us in the long run. The beginnings of technology started several years back. Judy Coils, a Nurse Practitioner in Columbus, Indiana, stated, “Nursing from the 1850’s to 1900’s was more focused on providing care to physical needs of patients and maintaining a hygienic environment” (Coils Interview). Judy went on to day that the inventions that came out during that time period, again, went along with helping maintain a hygienic environment. Some examples she gave were bedpans, bandages, surgical splints, nursing bottles, hospital beds, portable tubs, syringes, the safety pin and diapers. “Nursing technology was just getting started,” Coils said (Coils Interview). In the 1950’s, technological advancements involving new medicines...
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