NR 439 Week 2 Graded Discussion Topic: Research, Practice Problems, and Questions.
Week 2: Assigned Readings
Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research:
... [Show More] Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
• Chapter 2: The Research Process and Ways of Knowing
• Chapter 4: Finding Problems and Writing Questions
Purpose
This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).
• CO 1: Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO 7)
• CO 2:Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO 4 & 8)
• CO 5: Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (PO 7 & 8)
Discussion
Professional nurses rely on research findings to inform practice decisions; they use critical thinking to apply research directly to specific patient care situations.
Think about an independent nursing practice problem you care passionately about and would be interested in searching for evidence.
The below problems should not be used:
*medical/doctor/physician problems such as medications, or medications administration or effects, diagnostics such as EKGs, labs, cardiac catherizations.
*staffing, nurse-to-patient ratios, workforce issues are organizational/system /political/administrative/multi-stakeholder problems which nursing cannot solve independently.
• Describe a significant nursing clinical issue, topic of interest, or practice problem that is important to you. Describe why you chose the problem/topic.
• Write your clinical question in the PICO(T) format for your nursing practice problem. *To write your clinical question in the PICO(T) format, use the NR439_Guide for writing PICOT Questions and Examples
• List each of your PICOT elements.
Share why you care about this nursing practice problem and why you believe the problem would benefit from finding the best evidence.
ANSWER
Professor,
“Observations about a practice problem become questions, and these questions lead to nursing research that provides evidence to solve the problem. (Houser, 2018, p. 83).” So my question is teenage pregnancy. As I stated in my introduction, I hope to go on and become a WHNP. But this idea stemmed from my childhood. I, and a few of my peers, became sexually active during our mid-to-late teenage years. I didn’t have many educational talks at home about the acts of sexual intercourse or safe sex practices. I did go to my local Planned Parenthood for birth control but rarely would I get any information or education about sex that I felt prepared me to make safe, sound sexual decisions. This lack of education and immaturity lead to me becoming pregnant at 18 years old. So with that said, I have always wanted to return to the practice to be sure that young men and women were properly educated or safer sex practices as well as pregnancy prevention. According to the CDC, teen pregnancy rates are slowly declining but I believe more resources should be available to young, minority teens of low socioeconomical households. Research is showing that “use of more effective contraception and more information about pregnancy prevention (Livingston & Thomas, 2019)” will help decrease the rate of teen pregnancy.
My PICOT question is- In teen, minority women (aged 15-19) of low socioeconomic background (P), would access to youth friendly sexual & reproductive health resources (I) decrease teen pregnancy rates (O) when compared to standard school sex education (C) over the next 5 years (T).
P= Teen, minority women (aged 15-19) of low socioeconomic background
I= Youth friendly sexual & reproductive health resources
C= Standard school sex education
O= Teen pregnancy rates
T= 5 years
Reference
About Teen Pregnancy. (2019, March 1). Retrieved January 14, 2020, from https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm.
Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research: reading, using, and creating evidence (Fourth). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Livingston, G., & Thomas, D. (2019, August 2). Why is the U.S. teen birth rate falling? Retrieved January 14, 2020, from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/02/why-is-the-teen-birth-rate-falling/. [Show Less]