For our topic, my group has decided to focus on how women ages 15-30 risks for developing blood clots are effected by their usage of either birth control pills or non-hormonal IUDs. So far, we have a good team dynamic of coming together to get the work done. We plan on meeting either between classes or during the schedule time for our EBP class. We will hold one another accountable by asking one’s thoughts and contributions for this paper. We will choose dates and times that allows everyone to attend that way no one person is doing more work than another. If a team member isn’t participating as much as they should then I think our communication skills are good enough with one another that we can discuss why that person isn’t doing as much as they should. Since we have already picked a topic that is an interest for us all I don’t see a major disagreement coming up but if one does then we will use a democratic approach to solve it. A benefit about working as a team is the variety of perspectives that will be coming into forming this paper. Just in our discussion about our topic so many different questions arise that we wanted to look further into. A barrier that we might encounter would be the lack of literature on our topic.
Month: May 2021
I came into this program with a very open mind as to what specialty I want to consider for a future career. I’m in the stage of ruling out things I know I don’t want to do rather than picking a specific one. I do have 3 specialties that I’ve been thinking about since applying to school; public health, pediatrics and critical care. Through courses in college I grew an interest in public health and was very excited to find out that becoming a public health nurse is an option for me. With Pediatrics, I’ve always loved working with children. I feel very comfortable communicating with them and I love making them laugh. As for critical care this is something that I never really considered until I started nursing school. My grandmother became ill back in March and I spent many hours in the ICU visiting and getting to see how things go over those 8 weeks. She recently passed and how those nurses treated her and our family was so great that I think it might be something I want to do in my future.
Before looking over our books and other course content I had no idea what type of class I was coming into. When I first heard of evidence-based practice I just figured we would be learning how to properly look up things we needed to learn about or improve. In a way this is correct, there is much more than goes behind EBP. I assumed it would be a far lengthy process because I was thinking of it more as research. I was a biology major prior to this so it was all I knew. I am looking forward to learning throughout this semester because I believe it will give me the tools I need to be a successful nurse. Nurses need to think on the fly and be creative. Learning more about how to apply research, EBP, and quality improvement within the clinical setting will make both my future patients and team have more successful outcomes. The knowledge I will gain from this course will help me work through my nursing process in clinical this summer.
I think that the stigma behind mental illness is driven by our societal norms and how we believe we should behave and act. Those with mental illnesses are often seen as weak and/or unstable. There are many factors that affect mental illnesses like age, gender, and culture. I believe that in our society we don’t want to share our stories of mental illness because we are afraid of being judged by others. As I’ve grown older I’ve found that the stigma associated with mental illness has begun to subside but it is still very present. Self- stigma is influenced by your community, your support system, and social media. I’ve found that social media makes me often compare myself to others and influences me into believing that I should behave, look, and feel a certain way.
Culture is something that heavily affects how someone perceives mental illness. Some areas don’t have the resources or education to properly help those with mental illnesses. Someone’s culture might also change how someone talks about mental illness with a provider. How they perceive their symptoms or how they think they should feel will affect their response. Someone might think that the way they feel or are behaving is normal when it isn’t. Religion also affects how someone may perceive mental illness because it often outlines how someone should or shouldn’t feel. For example, someone who is believes in heaven might not understand why someone has become depressed over the death of a loved one. An example that I’ve seen within my culture is LGBTQ individuals, who also practice religions such as Christianity, who believe that their feelings regarding their sexuality and/or gender is wrong.
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