How Researchers Influence Care From Lamplight Days to
our Solar-Powered Future?
Since Florence Nightingale nurse researchers have influenced patient
care by systematically watching for patient's learning needs, their
reactions to treatments/procedures, and their ability to adhere to medical
regimens. When a problem is identified, nurse researchers develop and test
interventions, such as preoperative teaching or positioning protocols,
that minimize the side effects of illness of treatment procedures and
produce neonatal feeding health promotion outcomes. The view of the nurse
researcher is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, meaning
nurses interact with other disciplines to study the problem. Nursing care
and nurses' research spans a 24 hour day, thus offering a consistent
approach to care appropriate for a particular problem any time day or
night.
Describe a clinical issue and type in the box below how the nurse
researcher's multidisciplinary research could address the problem. Your
response will be sent to you and your instructor at the same time.
This is an assignment for How Researchers Influence Care.
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