When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.

From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.

As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs.
• Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.

ASSIGNMENT:

I. Describe at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why.

II. Then, describe at least one potential challenge. Or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why.

III. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.

Fostering a Culture of Learning for a Lifetime

 

CO #6: Examine contributions nursing research has made to nursing practice, patient education, and to health care.

Information: Nurses must understand research in order to effectively participate in the provision of evidence-based nursing care. As a student nurse, learning to be a lifelong learner and integrating evidence based research into your daily routine is important. A provider who incorporates evidence based approaches to practice seeks the best, most current evidence available to make judgments, apply clinical expertise while integrating the client’s values and beliefs into decisions about their care. The purpose of this assignment is to investigate the research process while completing a critical examination of qualitative or quantitative research relative to a current nursing issue or practice. The goal is for student to further investigate the research process, improve knowledge of evidence based practice, refine information literacy skills, understand research and engage in activities to become a lifelong learner.

This assignment encourages students to investigate each step of the research process and complete a critical examination of quantitative and/or qualitative research relevant to their nursing practice. Nurses must understand research in order to effectively participate in the provision of evidence-based nursing care.

Objectives of this assignments are to:

· Value the concept of EBP as integral to determining best clinical practice

· Develop & Demonstrate scholarly writing skills

 

 

Outcome: Students will integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise, patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal nursing care while incorporating strategies of lifelong learning.

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment

1. Formulate a research question from a recent clinical experience (PICO or PICOT structure)

2. Search for Evidence-Identify 5 or more peer reviewed research articles (within 5 years) pertaining to your research question. At least 2 most be original research

Lifelong learning opportunities

· Locate available resources

· Search databases (i.e. CINAHL, PubMed, Ebsco, etc.)

· Journal articles

 

3. Review and assess the evidence learned

 

4. Identify what type of research would be most appropriate for studying this issue and why (i.e. Qualitative or quantitative). Also include, if similar research was completed what method/techniques would you use to gather data (i.e.- experiments, focus groups, case studies etc.). Please include a rationale

Reflection- Write a 2-3 page reflection in APA on the following:

· How you would integrate the results of the of literature assessment into practice, taking into consideration the patient’s preference, evidence learned from peer reviewed articles, and your clinical experience. Specifically address how you would incorporate what you learned in practice (i.e. patient education, change in practice etc.). Include any anticipated challenges with implementation or how barriers can be overcome to improve practice.

· Please include information in the reflection on how you will utilize this dynamic process of questioning, learning and obtaining knowledge in the future as a lifelong learner.

 

Reply 1

The financial aspect of the change project will have little to no impact on the finances of stakeholders and the healthcare organization. With the availability of internet service, many older adults have phones with internet access. With this internet, health-related applications can be downloaded on the phones, and reminders can be set up on these phone apps that will remind the patient to take their medications. Another financial aspect of the change project will focus on the Healthcare organization; this may cost the organization some financial implications as the organization develops and sends out short messaging services (SMS) to patients to remind them about taking their prescribed medications.

health education

Quality aspects promote health education on setting reminders for medications to improve medication adherence and prevent the exacerbation of chronic illnesses commonly seen among older patients. Improving quality encompasses quality of nursing care and quality of patient life. Quality improvements involve a continuous process of collecting and analyzing data to improve nursing care delivery (Risch, n.d).

The clinical aspect is assessing the patients’ reasons for medication nonadherence and monitoring patients’ medication intake. The steps of evidence-based practice involve multiple processes; this requires nurses to have sufficient time to identify clinical problems that evidence-based practice can be implemented. Also, nurses need to research relevant literature, perform a necessary appraisal of the retrieved information, frame and utilize an intervention and evaluate the efficacy of the applied intervention (Majid, Foo, & Mokhtar, 2011).

References

Risch, S. (n.d). Evidence-based practice in a clinical setting. https://resources.nurse.com/evidence-based-practice-clinical-setting-nnw

Majid, S., Foo, S., Mokhtar, I.A. (2011). Adopting evidence-based practice in clinical decision making: nurses’ perceptions, knowledge, and barriers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133901/#:~:text=As%20EBP%20is%20a%20multistep,the%20retrieved%20evidence%2C%20formulate%20and

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Reply 2

Delivering high-quality patient care involves the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP). (Kueny, et al., 2015). When speaking with my preceptor, we discussed the financial, quality, and clinical aspects of developing the change proposal. When implementing my project, one important financial aspect is budgeting for more staff and interventions to help support nurses. One of the biggest causes of nurses’ mental health issues is burnout caused by inadequate staffing ratios. To show the value of the importance of providing appropriate interventions to aid nurses is to show the savings the facility will generate, having decreased staff turnover and increased patient and staff satisfaction and safety.

healthier work environment

One quality aspect is to provide interventions that promote a healthier work environment. These interventions need to show nurses they are supported by the facility and to improve their mental health. Improving nurses’ mental health should increase staff morale, retention, give them the tools to improve their mental health, and decrease the long-term effects of depression, anxiety, and insomnia on nurses.

The clinical aspect is the time and resources available to help support the EBP project. Gaining managerial support to implement the project is extremely important in its success. Nurse burnout can lead to poor mental health amongst nurses causing emotional exhaustion and apathy, which can cause long-term effects. Amongst the nursing shortage, facilities need to work on supporting and retaining nurses. According to the AACN, nurses who left the profession were 40,000 in 2010 to nearly 80,000 by 2020, and most nurses have left due to inadequate staffing and a stressful work environment. Two states that have shown the lowest nurse burnout rates were California and Massachusetts, which have legislation regulating nurse staffing ratios. So facilities need to work on preventing burnout and using resources within their health care systems to help their patients and nurses, i.e., mental health counselors, spiritual health, etc.

Reference:

Kueny, A., Shever, L., Lehan Mackin, M., & Titler, M. (2015). Facilitating the implementation of evidence-based practice through contextual support and nursing leadership. Journal of healthcare leadership, 7, 29–39. https://doi.org/10.2147/JHL.S45077

AACN. (2020). Nursing shortage. https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-information/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage

current healthcare issue

Article must be peer reviewed, research study and related to the current healthcare issue/trend.

·       Article must have been published within last 3-5 years.

·       Identify and discuss the research question, hypothesis, sampling size, and research finding.

100 to 150 word maximum synopsis for the article, identifying the points stated above; as well as the APA formatted reference