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Presenting changes

Presenting changes

We right this minute are waiting for feedback on our dissemination project.  From this project I will take with me that documenting input is very important. Many people remember to record the output that happens, but it doesn’t always help if we don’t know how much the patient is taking in, If someone is losing weight and it seeming like they are going to the bathroom and wasting big amount without it being recorded of the same being taken in,…

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Disaster Nursing

Disaster Nursing

The primary roles and responsibilities of a nurse in the events of a natural disaster are to work as a team, some nurses may do tasks that they normally would never do like coordinating team huddles and providing updates to staff so they know what’s going on. During different disasters there are going to be different roles that will be needed but everyone should always know what is going on. For example, during a power outage many of the nurses…

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Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Records

My initial thoughts on the use of Electronic Health Records were that they were used in the hospitals and other health care services but not much other than that. I knew doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers had access to their patients records but anything more I didn’t know that they could go to past patients that had or that other hospitals could pull up records of patients. I knew that have the electronic health records was an easier way…

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Final Reflection

Final Reflection

This team project has taught me many different things, from what nursing research is to how to formulate and write a research paper and learning to collaborate with others on a paper. This research project wasn’t always easy, having to go back and find new information that in the end might change out topic question was sometime frustrating but in the long run it ended up helping use strengthen what we were talking about and make the paper that much…

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Ethical Considerations for EBP and reflect

Ethical Considerations for EBP and reflect

After completing all of the ethical assignments and watching the movie “Miss Ever’s Boys” my understanding of what nurses contribute during ethical research has changed because before I thought nurses didn’t really have a big part in the ethical research I thought that went to a committee but now I know that there is more nurses do, they inform patients about some of the risks and benefits of being in the research or make sure that informed consent was signed…

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