I have just completed reading the discussion boards and the blogs. The overall impression I received while performing these activities is that nursing issues are the same at all entities!
All entities are being hit fast & hard with this flu outbreak. The preceptors that the students are following are providing opportunities for all of us to learn how this crisis is being handled. I am learning through your experiences through your blogs. I am a provider in an outpatient clinic and have seen a lot of patients in the last 2-3 weeks with flu-like symptoms. While I am doing my best to keep them out of the hospital ERs it is impossible to keep up. There are just too many getting sick. I am sure all of you are also seeing this in your jobs and clinical sites.
In our discussion board on technology I found that our entities also appear to be struggling with the acceptance of technologic changes by staff, whether it is EMR or Barcode Medication Administration and everything in between. I noticed that all recognize the resistance and fear of change. When you are looking at your Change theory for your projects, it will be interesting if issues are recognized in our current nursing practice. I am guessing that yes, nursing will be just like all other professions, struggling with all the stages of change.
As I am writing this blog a thought just floated into my head about my research interest. I am interested in discovering what feelings, perception, or beliefs lead parents to feel or describe urgency when deciding to use the ER for care of their ill child. I am hoping with this basic understanding an intervention can be created to help the parents feel competent to care for their child at home. But as I was typing this I realized that I too will need to research change theory in order to try to understand and recognize the stages parents will have to go through in order to obtain a change in their understanding and handling of their child's health. Hmmm... now I have another leg to look at prior to developing the study.
Jennifer
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Change is important, but don't let it distract you too much - a constant danger in research, I find. It will become far more important when you start thinking about intervention studies.
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