The following abstract is an example of using evidenced-based practice to explore research within the healthcare system. This document represents our class’s practice in exploring the realm of research within the field of nursing. Our group project specifically investigates how mental health and sleep deficits can be closely related to each other. To have full access to this document, please contact Jenna at jjacobsen1@une.edu.
During the spring semester of 2022, I have focused all my service-learning hours on the volunteer services towards homeless individuals. I attended two different services that both had the goals to serve and aid the homeless of our local area. The first project that I attended was a blanket making project. The goal of this project was to supply homeless people of the area with homemade blankets. Along with the blankets, we also provided written affirmations and…
This team project has taught me many skills that I look forward to utilizing in my future career. Evidence-based practice is a systemic process that is meant for improved measurable outcomes of communities. This project has shown me the steps as a nurse that I can take to utilize this practice in real life examples. Our class project was divided into teams. This helped strengthen my team working capabilities. Overall, I had a very good experience with the team members…
Nurses are with the patient more than any other healthcare provider throughout the course of a patient’s stay. They are the primary advocates for all patients and are ethically held responsible for the benefit of the patient. Since completing the ethics assignments, my understanding of the nurse’s contribution towards ethics and research have changed immensely. Nurses are indeed involved in research-based studies and play an important role. It is a clinical responsibility to ensure that all rights are provided to…
In my opinion, the nurse’s role has always been to be an ethical advocate for their patients. As you may be aware, studies progress immensely with each decade that passes. With that, comes new evidenced based practice. Each generation of nursing has a different perspective when it comes to implementing these in their practice. For example, nurses in the early to mid-nineteen hundreds were endorsed in a medical era where studying diseases were important. At the time, they had an…
After appraising all journal articles, I have seen a common conclusion from all documents. Every article determined that there is great evidence to support the concept that altered sleep patterns can be a result of and/or add complications towards the mental health of adolescents. As a future nurse, I take this information very seriously. There needs to be more education and awareness towards encouraging proper sleep within adolescent aged children. I believe we should also place a closer view towards…
How Mental and Physical Health Intertwine Jenna Jacobsen University of New England The career of nursing comes with a large responsibility revolving around the focus of holistic care. Holistic care involves a view of the patient as a whole. They may have a physical disease that is imposing poor health on them, but as a nurse, it is important to acknowledge that there are other forms of illness that can also be present. It has only…
This simulation experience has been unlike any other nursing experience that I have ever had prior to joining this class. My group responsible for utilizing communication wisely to gather information from our client as well as helping them design goals for treatment. This was quite a big challenge for me personally because I typically become a little anxious around the idea of speaking one on one with real patients. Nursing school up to this point has presented with a large…
My team has faced some challenges since the beginning of this project. We began the project by designing a PICOT formed, evidenced based-practice (EBP) question regarding whether handwashing or gel washing is more efficient. We hit some roadblocks by first realizing that there are not many studies that directly investigated our topic. We later found out that the article that we could find on the topic were out of the timeline that we were looking for. In other words, all…
Modern day medicine has allowed the creation of artificial elimination pathways in patients that have gastrointestinal tract (GI) complications. An ostomy is a diversion of the GI tract towards the outside of the body that does not enter the colon and rectum. Most artificial ostomies are in the abdominal area. Therefore, waste is moving directly from the intestines to the outside of the abdomen. The patient will no longer be able to control the amount of waste that comes out…
