Evaluation of Research Articles

Evaluation of Research Articles

Introduction

Nursing practice is a dynamic practice that involves application of high-level skills and knowledge in health care practice across stable and complex conditions. Professionally competent practice has several components; its main component is clinical practice skills, which focuses on a specific population or specialty practice. Key components of professional practice are the comprehensive ability of nurse practitioner and physical assessment. This assessment is based on knowledge of human sciences and pathophysiology. This practice involves the ability to order investigations and to prescribe medications according to assessment information.

Operating Room Nurses provide care by applying nursing principles. The responsibilities of these nurses include coordination with other team members to implement patient care plans regarding pre- and post-operative care and provides the communication between family and operating team. They monitor vital signs of patients during surgery. They provide bedside care and administer prescribed medications. They report the post-operative complications and adverse reactions to physicians. They respond to life-saving situations and record information accurately, in a timely manner. They can make a difference in the operating room system of care. They prepare operating room for procedure. The following paper describes the nurses involved in operating rooms. It reviews five research articles and evaluates its method, framework, and results.

Discussion

First Study

Author

This article written by Christian, Gustafson, and Roth, (2006), on the topic “A prospective study of patient safety in the operating room” published in Journal of Surgery.

Type of Study

This study is a quantitative analysis of the findings.

Sample

Ten general surgery cases were analysed in a hospital.

Design

They observed the findings, recorded, and analyzed. They analysed system features that impacted patient care and team performance. The safety-compromising events were also analyzed .

Theoretic Framework

They performed the study to understand the operating room system risk. They identified system of care that could influence the patient care and safety. They analysed OR care by observational technique.

Data Collection

They took the data using observational technique from 10 general surgery cases in a hospital.

Key Findings

They found that communication problems, competing tasks and increased workload were have negative impact on the operating team performance. It was also effecting negatively on patient safety. They identified eleven events in their study, that compromised the patient care and safety, which help them to identify factors that contributed effect on patient's care. This study demonstrated the significance of observational studies in determining system that impact patient safety. They found that communication breakdown, information loss, competing tasks and increased workload cause threats to operating room patient safety.

Second Study

Author

This article written by Makary Sexton, and Julie (2006) on “Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder”

Type of Study

This study is a quantitative analysis of the findings.

Sample

ORworkers in sixty hospitals were evaluated.

Design

They surveyed 60 hospitals' operating room personnel by using Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. They assessed nurses, anaesthetists, and Surgeons. The results were analysed using Likert scale.

Theoretic Framework

Their basic concept was that the teamwork is essential for patient ...