Category: EBP II Posts

Presenting Change

December 5, 2021 / ewalsh11 / 3 Comments

Working on this project with my peers was a good experience. I was pleasantly surprised in how this project went compared to the project that we had to do for EBP 1. Our audience was the special care nurses at SMHC and some of the MS4 unit nurses. The feedback that we got was it was a good refresher for them. They have been dealing with COVID patients since the beginning, so this was nothing new for them. My feeling on this is that if we had presented this to nurses at a long-term care facility the feedback that we could receive might have been different as they are not dealing with acute COVID patients every day. The nurses thought that the quiz was a good way to assess their knowledge to see what they already know or need to brush up on.

What I learned from this team project was that I can work with people on a project who might see things differently than I do and actually learn something from them. I also learned more about the topic itself and the facts behind proning. Working on this project helped me gain skills to work with people even when we all don’t have the same schedules. We also meshed well together and created a good system for getting work done. This was partly because Dr. Kramlich was so helpful in providing feedback and ideas when we needed them. I also learned that I do not always have to be the leader.

Often times in all the groups I am a part of I am the leader, this time I took a step back and let someone else take on this role. This was a good learning experience for me because it gave me the freedom to take a more supportive role instead of being the one who spear heads everything. I hope that I can take this experience with me throughout my nursing career as well and realize that I do not always have to be in the lead role.

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Proposing Change

November 8, 2021 / ewalsh11 / 0 Comments

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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Planning Change

September 17, 2021 / ewalsh11 / 0 Comments

I anticipate that this dissemination project will get done in a timely fashion. There will absolutely be bumps in the road, disagreements, and group members that don’t do their part but that is nothing new. Individually I will be organized and timely to get my contributions and portions in on time and do the best quality work that I can. I can control me, I can’t control others so I can’t worry about what they’re doing or if they aren’t doing their part, they’re only hurting themselves. I plan to communicate with my group in person, over text, and over email. When conflict does arise I will be clear and direct with my group members while still being respectful, my goal is to not shy away from conflict this year and actually address it and not feel bad about it. I think this will be a beneficial project because we should obviously learn something from it and it should work in our favor to work together as a group. Barriers will be addressed head on in a respectful way this will help for future nursing practice because when it comes to life and death situations there’s no time to be indirect and indecisive. This will be useful in many ways but my personal goal for this semester is to do better at communicating more directly and to the point.