Nursing Research Topics! Any Ideas?

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Hi all. I am a student nurse.

For my assignment, I have to write an essay based on evidence practice nursing. I am struggling to find a topic. I am thinking about: risk assessment tools to predict pressure sores. However, I am not finding different types of level of the hierarchy of evidence.

I want a topic where I would be able to find different types evidence such as systematic review, a qualitative or quantitative study or an expert opinion on the topics.

What topics would you think is interested for me to use?

Thanks in advance.

Specializes in Medical.

Nccity2002 - are any of those papers by practicing ICU nurses? Because I'm seeing a few drawbacks to 24/24 family...

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Specializes in Trauma/Critical Care.
talaxandra said:
Nccity2002 - are any of those papers by practicing ICU nurses? Because I'm seeing a few drawbacks to 24/24 family...

Most of the researchers, seem to be nurses, with too much education and far away (if not minimal) bedside experience. I had never met an ICU nurse who support an 24/7 open door practice, it is just not practical...but there is a lot of research supporting this practice and almost none, against it. When my facility decided to implement this practice, because of course, it is "evidence-based practice" (mind you, we are a level I trauma center, located in an area with a high incident of gangs activity), go figures, the two nurses who introduced the practice, had been away from beside for years (if not centuries)...and they used to be Peds nurses (now working in administration). I am all for giving our nursing practice a scientific foundation. The days where we do thing just because "that's the way we do it here", hopefully are gone...but some, evidence-based practices, sometimes make me wonder.

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Specializes in ER.

Audit the communication book of any (or a few) nursing units. Determine if each entry was to add work to the nurses' day, make the day easier, or had no effect. Estimate how much the average nurses' work time changed in the last six months. Discuss the implications on patient care.

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