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Nursing posters to display knowledge in presentation
By: Julianna Backer
Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: News
From 2 to 5 p.m. today, students from a Nursing and Research class at SFA will hold a poster presentation for the staff of Memorial Hospital in Nacogodoches.
The presentations will follow the theme of 'What's New In Nursing.' Some of the topics covered will be SIDS, C-section vs. vaginal delivery, water births and whether they reduce trauma, male circumcision and animal-assisted aid in the healing process. The students, who worked in groups of three, used the most current and up-to-date literature to create their posters, mostly recent research from peer-reviewed journals that were made available to them.
"This project is about what's new and using evidence-based issues and practices," said Debbie Ellisor, one of the course's instructors. "They'll disseminate the information and their conclusions with their poster presentations to the staff of the hospital."
The class was composed of 46 students., mostly second semester juniors. The project was conducted over the length of the semester.
"As nurses, they have a responsibility to use research and see that their patients receive the best care. When they leave in about five years, everything they will have learned will be obsolete. They need to find ways to locate and critique the newest research in their field," Ellisor said.
Ellisor emphasized the importance of evidence-based practice, which can be defined as using treatments for which "systematic empirical research has provided evidence of statistically significant effectiveness". The importance of evidence-based practice and research and the use of statistics and studies in the field of medicine is growing.
The posters will be taken to the second floor of Steen Library after the presentation and will be up from Nov. 18 to Dec. 12 for any students interested in viewing them.
jbacker@thepinelog.com
The presentations will follow the theme of 'What's New In Nursing.' Some of the topics covered will be SIDS, C-section vs. vaginal delivery, water births and whether they reduce trauma, male circumcision and animal-assisted aid in the healing process. The students, who worked in groups of three, used the most current and up-to-date literature to create their posters, mostly recent research from peer-reviewed journals that were made available to them.
"This project is about what's new and using evidence-based issues and practices," said Debbie Ellisor, one of the course's instructors. "They'll disseminate the information and their conclusions with their poster presentations to the staff of the hospital."
The class was composed of 46 students., mostly second semester juniors. The project was conducted over the length of the semester.
"As nurses, they have a responsibility to use research and see that their patients receive the best care. When they leave in about five years, everything they will have learned will be obsolete. They need to find ways to locate and critique the newest research in their field," Ellisor said.
Ellisor emphasized the importance of evidence-based practice, which can be defined as using treatments for which "systematic empirical research has provided evidence of statistically significant effectiveness". The importance of evidence-based practice and research and the use of statistics and studies in the field of medicine is growing.
The posters will be taken to the second floor of Steen Library after the presentation and will be up from Nov. 18 to Dec. 12 for any students interested in viewing them.
jbacker@thepinelog.com
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Ed O'Hagan
posted 11/17/08 @ 9:01 AM CST
Speaking of SIDS, here's something to consider:
One dependable way of confirming if a dead infant was a victim of SIDS and not abuse, would be to conduct an examination of the carotid bodies. (Continued…)
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