My views have mostly stayed the same. I think it is so important to know the history and evolution of principles of ethics to understand that patient care has evolved in its entirety in order to provide the best care possible for the patients. Achieving our course objectives have definitely increased my knowledge about research and its role in ethics and in the healthcare setting. Evidence-based practice is what drives innovation in the science world and it helps to create the safest outcomes for patients possible based on practices implemented after trials and research of its own.
Month: April 2022
I think nurses’ role in healthcare ethics is that no matter our personal morals and values, we have to care for each individual under the same standards of care and hold all patients in the same regard. Nurses are there for the patients and spend the most time interacting with patients. This means we get to know the patients the most and nurses can be a great patient advocate in ethical situations where ethics committees may need to be involved. Nurses can make sure that ethics committees are contacted if there is an issue of ethics such as a child wanting one thing for their health and their guardian wanting something else.
There may be different sides arguing an ethical issue but nurses can provide healthcare professional perspective and also patient advocacy, along with many other valuable team members on an ethics committee. Nurses can use evidenced based practice journal articles providing information that is relevant to ethics cases and use that to help with the ethical decisions. Nurses can help provide research knowledge that will help their patients as well. Nurses can also advocate for more research in aspects that there are not enough research studies yet to help patients that are looking for help or answers about their health conditions.
For our topic, we were interested in studying the differences between formula feeding and pumped breast milk feeding when providing nutrition to premature infants. After researching our topic we realized that the bigger topic of discussion is how donor breast milk performs when put up against a mother’s own breast milk or formula feeding. These findings did not change our assumptions, but they did open our eyes to a problem mothers are currently facing if they are unable to produce breast milk or if the infants lost their mother. I think this topic is really important and interesting to study because mainstream media is never focused on helping new mothers out and they often feel lost and ostracized. This research can help put some mothers’ minds at ease if it is proven that donor breast milk helps the premature infants just as much as the other two options. My teammate and I work very well together and have gone through some tough things including sickness and have managed to stay on track.
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