Prompt 1
During my week’s shift at a hospice house in my clinical state, I got the chance to interact with nurses working there and also terminally ill patients that were at the verge of death. Luckily, I also had the chance to witness two patients get out of the hospice house better than they came and managed to recover over time. The biggest difficulty I faced during this time was getting to reassure the relatives of the patients that the patients still have a chance of living. In my opinion, one should not lose hope until the end comes (Woo, Maytal, & Stern, 2006). I once got into a small argument with a nurse who deliberately failed to give hope to the relatives and patients saying that the patients had been brought in there because their fate was already known. This occurred as unprofessional to me. Secondly, teaching the patients and families about the dying process and treating those symptoms as they progress is an area that I think can be improved on. Better equipment and technology can be used in order to cater to patients and relatives with different disabilities such as blindness.
Prompt 2
In the few clinical sites that I have managed to work in or visit, I have witnessed nurses deliberately abandoning the concept of evidence-based care and choose to stick to what they were taught traditionally. Just like the study in the article confirms, I found this problem to be rampant in nurses who were older (Nurses struggle to implement evidence-based practice, n.d.) . Younger nurses were quicker at accepting evidence-based care as a strategy. However, since most clinical sites are managed by older people, they have set up laws that are against evidence-based practice. To remove this barrier, younger people are being absorbed into top management positions to help with ideas on how evidence-based practice is beneficial.
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References
Nurses struggle to implement evidence-based practice . (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2019, from NURSE.COM: https://www.nurse.com/blog/2012/09/03/nurses-struggle-to-implement-evidence-based-practice-2/
Woo, J. A., Maytal, G., & Stern, T. A. (2006). Clinical Challenges to the Delivery of End-of-Life Care. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry , 8 (6), 367–372. doi:10.4088/pcc.v08n0608
