What I learned about my topic through literature reviews and collaborating with my peers is that this is an effective way to promote/increase gas exchange in patients with COVID-19. We found that educating the staff on the given floor that is providing the care to these patients is of highest importance when seeing increasing results of this being implemented. When the staff new exactly why and how important it was it translated into how much more this technique was used.
The literature review did not change my view on this topic. Over the last year and some change I have worked on a COVID floor and in an Emergency Department seeing lots of COVID patients. I understood how important this was early on because we as staff were being educated throughout the process of COVID in learning new ways to help our patients in a relatively simple way.
Our team did not revise our topic at all. I will carry this knowledge going forward in my nursing career because this can also be beneficial to patients with other types of respiratory issues. Some successes of our team were that we communicated well, we designated one person to always submit the assignments which I think worked out well in the end so there was less confusion on what/who was doing various tasks. We also worked together as team very nicely we just meshed, and it even showed when we were out on the floor at clinical. The only minor challenge we faced was feeling enough time to get this done as we are in other demanding classes right now but I feel this was an invaluable experience and I would not have done anything differently. We solved this issue with google docs, zoom meetings, and everyone bending their schedules a little bit.
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