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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Topic 3
Assessment Description
Students are required to submit weekly journal entries throughout the course. These reflective narratives help students identify important learning events that happen throughout the course and the practicum. In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained.
Write a reflection journal (250-300 words) to outline what has been discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week there will be a specific focus to use in your reflection. Integrate leadership and inquiry into the current practice. Please make sure to address all areas in your writing.
Topic Focus: Health care delivery and clinical systems
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Note: For this assignment I need to talk about how health care delivery and clinical systems (the topic focus) relates to this week’s assignments. Please, let me know if you have any questions.
These are this week’s assignments so you have an idea of what to develop on this reflective journal
1- Post a draft of your PICOT question. This should be the same question you are using in your research paper. Give and receive feedback to refine your PICOT question.
My answer to this one:
A structure for creating a clinical research question is called a PICOT question. PICOT is an acronym for Population of Focus, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time (McClinton, 2022). It aids in identifying the patient or population that the researcher intends to examine, the intervention or treatment under consideration, comparing one intervention to another, the intended or anticipated outcome, and the timeline for achieving the desired result (Schiavenato & Chu, 2021).
Geriatric patient falls is a reoccurring problem in the hospital setting that was exposed during my clinical hours with my preceptor. This issue reduces the standard of care and has a detrimental impact on patient outcomes. Falls also have significant financial implications, leading to higher patient treatment costs. Nurses play a major role in fall prevention (Zhao, 2018). They need to familiarize themselves with falls and potential risks. It is imperative to incorporate a fall prevention program into routine clinical practice to reduce the risk of falls and improve patient outcomes. Nurses can get valuable information about falls through PICOT questions (McClinton, 2022). The PICOT question I am using in my research paper is the following:
Among geriatric patients in the hospital setting (P), would the implementation of patient-centered interventions (I) be more effective compared to the current fall prevention interventions (C) in reducing the incidence of falls (O) one month after implementation (T)?
2-Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative data
My answer to this one:
Evaluating evidence is essential to developing evidence in nursing research because it generates data that can be used to support decisions. Qualitative and quantitative data are the two primary approaches for evaluating the evidence (Siedlecki, 2020).
Qualitative research is a type of data that explores and offers more in-depth insights into topics in the real world. When conducting qualitative research, participants’ experiences, perceptions, and behavior are gathered rather than numerical data points. Instead of focusing on how many or how much, qualitative research addresses the hows and whys (Squires & Dorsen, 2018). Qualitative data evaluation involves exploring and analyzing the obtained data, comparing and contrasting ideas, and understanding emerging patterns. The methods used to evaluate this data are not numerical (Aspers & Corte, 2019). The capacity to thoroughly analyze study issues is one of the benefits of qualitative evaluation methods, which are also advantageous because predetermined questions do not constrain interviews. Qualitative evaluation is also flexible, allowing for changes in methodology and direction (Squires & Dorsen, 2018).
Analyzing statistical data serves as the foundation for quantitative methods. Data is gathered in numerical formats to facilitate analysis. The outcomes of this analysis are numerical because it is quantitative (Aspers & Corte, 2019). A particular process is followed while evaluating quantitative data. The first is how variables and data scale measurement are related. For instance, data scales can identify correlations between data and possible cause-and-effect relationships between the given data. Through descriptive statistics, quantitative data can be used to understand the sample better (Siedlecki, 2020). Since it can only be used to look for concrete and statistical relationships, this method’s fundamental disadvantage is that it primarily emphasizes numbers. As a result, researchers may need to pay more attention to broader relationships and themes. Quantitative research can be deceptive due to the assumption that statistical evaluation methods are more reliable than observational ones. However, this research has the advantage of being testable and verifiable, which makes it simpler for future researchers to validate the data (Siedlecki, 2020).
