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.
Category: PICOT
We revised it a small amount and changed it from bottle feeding to formula feeding to use the correct terminology and changed it from breastfeeding to pumped breast milk. We also switched it from measuring the babies’ nutrition to measuring adequate nutrition intake to make it more specific. Some challenges that I experienced were that I am very used to finding research articles to back scientific theses and not for PICOT questions. I was finding articles that were not specific enough for evidence based practice. I understand this concept a lot more now about how the articles need to specifically back up the topic that you are researching for it to be considered evidence based practice. We solved the problem by communicating with each other and with our professor to figure out where we were going wrong with our searches. Some successes our team has experienced is that Annie and I work really well together and come up with great ideas. We both think that this topic is really interesting and are excited to see how we can formulate our paper based off of the research from the three articles.
I anticipate this project going really well. Our topic is something I have actually wondered about before and I am excited to see through research what we find out. Annie and I work really well together and even though we do not have other team members, it will be really easy to split the work 50/50. We have communicated well through email and in class and have supported each other in accomplishing tasks well. We agreed that we would split the work in half and have finished everything early so far so not finishing things on time should not be an issue, but if it becomes one we will be able to communicate about it. I think barriers may just be busy since we are both nursing students, but getting work done while busy is a really important school for nursing because nurses are constantly on the go and have many things they have to remember to do at once. Nurses are the kings and queens of multitasking!
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