Since the start of this course, with the help of the material it has broadened my eyes to the various mental illnesses that could play a role in my future patients. Being exposed to stigma and negative views in society I had never truly educated myself on the various disease processes and ways to support this patient population until now. I think the most important theme that has been resonated throughout lectures and especially the weekly assigned videos is to approach each patient with the same amount of compassion and caring attitude no matter what their diagnosis is and to treat them like any other med-surg patient that we would encounter, if not even more attentive. With this patient population, balancing all of their wellness domains and highlighting on what we can do as nurses that can support their biological psychological and social domains. Identifying that along with their bio-psycho-social domains, they also have their eight dimensions of wellness that we as nurses can integrate into their care plan to help balance and strengthen. Learning more about the different diagnoses widens my view and will allow me to be accountable to myself, my future profession and my future patients to give them the support and respect that they deserve.
Month: October 2020
From inquiry to discovery
Since my team chose a topic, we had to slightly alter our wording to further clarify details we indicated in our question. Our PICOT asks the question if infants that were fed a diet majorly of breastmilk as compared to a diet majorly of formula had differences in their growth and development. We had to clarify about a diet that mostly consisted of either breastmilk or formula milk, the wording could have wrongfully included babies who had a mixture of both types of milk when our goal was to compare the two diets and the effects of that. The research articles that were available to us in databases was slightly limited due to the time constriction of being from the past 7 years, there was a high amount of research that had this theme 8 or 9 years ago which had to be excluded. Also, making the searches specific to growth and development or body composition of infants with one diet versus another was limited, but we are confident that with the three articles chosen that they adequately cover our topic and provide information to support our PICOT question. One challenge that we had was the time constriction like previously mentioned, but once we found one meta-analysis it was used to go through the list of references to provide another good article to use. A success that our team has experienced is good teamwork and communication, after we were notified that one of our articles was not a research article we quickly worked together to run searches to fix that issue. This step has gone relatively smooth and I am looking forward to continuing the process.
