Any bedside nurses (kind souls) willing to answer 6 questions for me?

[rn_william]

I'm finishing up my BSN and as one of my very last classes I need to collect "interviews" on certain specialties for a paper. I need to collect interviews from the perspective of five different practice areas - one of the interviews is from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse. I apologize for the questions being so wordy. I have to write a paper based on the interview answers from these questions. I need them to be thoughtful enough that I can write a coherent comparison/contrast for various specialty practice areas. I do not need complete sentences and anyone that has time to answer these for me would have my sincere appreciation. Even if you have time to answer one or two questions, it would be a huge help.

4. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Describe the role of the nurse executive in promoting safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations.

5. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Describe how you apply quality improvement processes to implement patient safety initiatives and monitor outcomes.

9. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Describe how nursing research has improved or changed a particular aspect of patient care in your institution. How is the research project different from quality improvement activities?

10. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Describe how information technology and patient data are used in your institution for ethical, effective clinical decision making and how patient confidentiality is protected.

11. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Describe a particular situation in which you have been involved with the roles and responsibilities of a major healthcare regulatory agency that affected patient care quality, workplace safety, healthcare reimbursement, or the scope of nursing practice.

12. From the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: Compare nursing practice roles for the registered nurse, clinical nurse leader, advanced practice registered nurse, and clinical nurse specialist in your clinical setting. Describe specific differences in their duties, knowledge, and abilities.

Thank you,

rn_william

[Mike A. Fungin RN]

From the perspective of a bedside nurse, those questions (as written) made my head hurt. Clearly authored by an academic.

I'll PM you answers.

[fungez]

From the perspective of a bedside nurse, those questions (as written) made my head hurt. Clearly authored by an academic.

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Me, too. For once, I am at a loss for words.

[cb_rn]

you must be in WGU's program. The instructor will send you papers for any of the nurse interviews you can't get if you send her an email. Good luck with it.

[regularRN]

What does WGU mean? But anyway, I suggest you interview actual RNs in person.

[HealthShepherd]

These are essay questions, not survey questions. I can't believe the "teachers" make students have to beg hard-working strangers to volunteer this amount of work for their papers. Not to mention the fact that it's impossible to write a paper of any depth on so many different subjects, even if you just used the perspective of nurses in one specialty.

Sorry, OP, I feel for you (and am once again so glad that nursing school is behind me), but I'm not a kind enough soul to take on this assignment. But do feel free to pass on my nursing diagnosis that your prof suffers from rectocranial inversion.

[rn_william]

Thank you for the sympathy. There are 12 questions to be answered by 5 different categories of nurses (ie. nurse researcher, CNS, administrator). Then, my task is to write the paper based on the interview answers.

If anyone has time to answer one question it would help.

Thanks,

rn_william

[rainbowbrite85]

But do feel free to pass on my nursing diagnosis that your prof suffers from rectocranial inversion.

Best. Diagnosis. Ever.

[LouisVRN, RN]

If no one has answered by the time my husband has gone to bed I'll do it! :)

[rn_william]

Thank you - even a couple of questions would help.

[LouisVRN, RN]

4. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: describe the role of the nurse executive in promoting safe and quality outcomes of care for diverse populations.

the nurse executive views the incident reports and is critical in changing the policies and procedures of the facility, in addition they are usually the ones that receive the patient satisfaction surverys/complaints and work with unit based committees on making changes and expectations that impact care. ideally at some point they listen to the input of the bedside nurse as to what is and is not practical and realistic before implementing their ideas

5. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: describe how you apply quality improvement processes to implement patient safety initiatives and monitor outcomes.

i apply quality improvement processes as a bedside nurse by completing an incident/event report every time i witness something unsafe or against policy. in my opinion it doesn't matter if the patient was harmed or not, if it was a near miss or a total miss. somewhere the policy broke down, be it lack of staff education, training, available equipment, etc. if it broke down once and nothing is done, chances are it will happen again. additionally i am on the shared governance committee and we work on issues that improve patient safety and satisfaction on a unit level. as far as monitoring outcomes as a bedside nurse its really tough. you only see a snapshot of the patient care while you are there and it constantly changes based on the patients and nurses you work with. any incident reports that are made, if you are not directly involved in you dont hear about them and patient satisfaction survey results we usually get months later which makes it difficult if not impossible to consider the variables that correlated to those results.

9. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: describe how nursing research has improved or changed a particular aspect of patient care in your institution. how is the research project different from quality improvement activities?

i am not really sure on this, maybe we just don't do too much research on our floor. i don't know if it counts as nursing research that i do chart audits to determine the amount of education patients receive and then take this information to my director for increased support and to promote more effort in that area. i would assume you are not neccessarily looking at improving outcomes with all nursing research, while that is the main goal with quality improvement activities.

10. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: describe how information technology and patient data are used in your institution for ethical, effective clinical decision making and how patient confidentiality is protected.

all of our charting is done electronically. the doctors at our workplace have access to all of our charting and all imaging and lab studies on the computer and they can often access this from. patient confidentiality is protected because we require written consent from the patient/poa to share any electronic records with other physicians/ or family members as well as requiring a pin number for all verbal exchanges of information.

11. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: describe a particular situation in which you have been involved with the roles and responsibilities of a major healthcare regulatory agency that affected patient care quality, workplace safety, healthcare reimbursement, or the scope of nursing practice.

the only thing i can think of here is doing chart audits before being visited by the joint commission, oh and checking the expiration date of all our gauze sponges.

12. from the viewpoint of the bedside nurse: compare nursing practice roles for the registered nurse, clinical nurse leader, advanced practice registered nurse, and clinical nurse specialist in your clinical setting. describe specific differences in their duties, knowledge, and abilities

at our hospital there are pretty much only nurses in registered staff positions, charge positions or in management. as far as i know we have no clinical nurse leaders, advanced practice registered nurses or clinical nurse specialists. however from an educational standpoints, registered nurses are the forefront of providing direct patient care, clinical nurse leaders are responsible for ensuring best practice is used to improve patient outcomes, the advanced practice nurse is able to act as a practitioner and alter clinical care and the cns is specialized in providing care to a specific population of patients.

hope this helps and good luck to you!!

[Fribblet]

nevermind