During the Evidence Based Practice I course with Professor Kramlich, I learned a lot about not only evidenced based practice in nursing but also a little taste into what it will be like being a part of the healthcare team. We worked together through zoom and in person, in order to complete our team influence paper about the effect of duration on the incidence of CAUTI. In the future, I will use these teamwork skills that I learned in this…
Abstract Before the pandemic, I would have never thought to constantly wear a mask, second guess going out in public, hesitate to hug my grandmother, have enough food and toilet paper to last, go to college on zoom or to change after work in fear of bringing a virus home to my family. This all became reality during the covid-19 pandemic. No matter what role in society, everyone was affected in some way by this pandemic. Whether it be healthcare…
Through the evidence appraisals and synthesis process, I discovered that there really is not a lot of evidence to support our PICOT question despite what I thought. I assumed that duration of a Foley catheter was a major factor in increasing the incidence of CAUTI however we were not able to find an article that directly focused on duration as a factor. I don’t think I realized this until the synthesis of our paper because when I looked at the…
This project so far has taught me more about teamwork, as well as the importance of evidence based practice in the healthcare field. When creating our PICOT question, we knew the topic that we wanted to focus on which was the risk of catheter associated urinary tract infections. However, after communicating with our professor we felt that we were not as detailed as we needed to be in our first draft of our question so we decided to rewrite it…
During this semester I believe that team work and communication will be two major pieces to being able to successfully complete this project. Each of the members in my team, including myself, must put in the same amount of effort, work and time in order to make a cohesive and well thought out paper. I have no doubt that we will be able to finish each piece of this project with little stress, as long as we work together and…
