Week 7: Applying and Sharing Evidence to Practice
After the data have been analyzed, conclusions are made regarding what the findings mean. Then, this
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1. Choose one of the articles from the Week 5 RRL assignment, and discuss the findings. Would you apply the evidence found to your practice? Explain your answer.
2. Translating research into practice is the final and most important step in the research process. Review information you found your nursing clinical issue and explain ways in which you would share the research-based evidence with your peers.
Dr. Eby and Class,
1. Choose one of the articles from the Week 5 RRL assignment and discuss the findings. Would you apply the evidence found to your practice? Explain your answer.
I chose the article, Making sense of a new technology in clinical practice: A qualitative study of patient and physician perspectives” (Pals, Hansen, Johansen, Hansen, …et al. 2015). This was a qualitative study showing the use of innovative technology in a clinic setting and how physicians and patients perceived the information given to them and how they were able to use that information. Both patients and doctors felt that the tools used were not great and that it left them with misunderstanding and confusions to simple instructions. I can relate to this article for sure, in my 12 years of nursing our organization has tried to make many changes and bring in innovative ideas and technologies on how best for the nursing staff and physicians to utilize patient care and education. Most of the time this leaves staff and patients confused and wasting unnecessary time, hurting the patient as they are unaware of what to do and then are too afraid to ask for clarifications and then leave the clinic or hospital without the proper tools to care for themselves. The study was able to show that patients needed more instructions to understand what was needed and physicians needed more instructions on how to interpret the results so that they could share them better.
2. Translating research into practice is the final and most important step in the research process. Review information you found your nursing clinical issue and explain ways in which you would share the research-based evidence with your peers.
My question that I used for my nursing clinical issue was: Can nurses on 3NW experience decreased alarm fatigue if you lessen the alarm parameters to a critical value, thus increasing patient safety and decreasing nursing fatigue? I would want to present evidence to my nursing unit and management where we could look at causes and possible limitations of the study. Once the information was gathered then we could get policies and procedures started in a lean group to help get the best information possible. Education would be necessary to ensure that alarm fatigue was recognized and then ways in which nurses could decrease them. Education on alarm
settings and the importance of the new settings being critical only alarms. “Qualitative research seeks to understand the meaning of an event, rather than measure effects, so issues of internal validity, control, and avoidance of bias are not central concerns” (Houser, 2018, p. 386).
References:
Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research: Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett
Pals, R. S., Hansen, U. M., Johansen, C. B., Hansen, C. S., Jørgensen, M. E., Fleischer, J., & Willaing, I. (2015). Making sense of a new technology in clinical practice: A qualitative study of patient and physician perspectives. BMC Health Services Research, 15(1), 1-10. doi:10.1186/s12913-015-1071-1 https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login? url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=her&AN=109884152&site=eds-live [Show Less]