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Reply 1
The article that I chose for my discussion post this week was a Qualitative study article. The title of the article is "Disability and Rehabilitation".
The authors of this article are Lucía I. Floríndez, Mike E. Carlson, Elizabeth Pyatak, Jeanine Blanchard, Alison M. Cogan, Alix G. Sleight, Valerie Hill, Jesus Diaz, Erna Blanche, Susan L. Garber, and Florence A. Clark.
The purpose of this study is to identify circumstances leading to medically serious pressure injury development in medically underserved adults with SCI during a lifestyle-based pressure injury prevention program and provide recommendations for future rehabilitation approaches and intervention design (Floríndez et al., 2019).
Learning about patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and how they are at increased risk for developing pressure injuries makes me more aware of what kind of care they need and what approach is best when caring for them. Changes I would recommend based on the article are to implement more education for these types of patients, especially about wound care (Floríndez et al., 2019). I would also recommend the need for reaching out to social services to ensure that these patients have all the necessary equipment and supplies needed for wound care. While all of these are necessary for the patients, it is important for health care providers to first understand their patients by ensuring their socio-economic status, language skills, mental functioning, and cognitive functioning are prioritized. Effective communication is key and patients must be communicated with so that they comply with the recommendations.
Reference: Floríndez, L., Carlson, M., Pyatak, E., Blanchard, J., Cogan, A., & Sleight, A. et al. (2019). A qualitative analysis of pressure injury development among medically underserved adults with spinal cord injury. Disability And Rehabilitation, 42(15), 2093-2099. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1552328
Reply 2
Title of article: Healthcare professional perspectives on barriers and enablers to falls prevention education: A qualitative study.
Authors: Hazel Heng, Debra Kiegaldie, Susan C. Slade, Dana Jazayeri, Louise Shaw, Matthew Knight, Cathy Jones, Anne-Marie Hill, and Meg E. Morris.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide a clear perspective on the certain barriers that health care providers are facing regarding falls prevention education, with possible solutions to eliminate these barriers.
Type of Study: Qualitative.
I believe this article is very important for all healthcare providers to analyze because the main purpose is patient safety, which should be the main priority for all healthcare workers. As a future nurse, this will influence my practice, because as I was reading the articles I was noting down the possible barriers that enable providers to provide patients the proper education on falls, which include limited interprofessional communication regarding falls, perceived patient-related barriers, as well as others (Heng et al., 2022). Based on this article, I would recommend implementing better strategies to help patients understand falls education in a better way, as well as basing the delivery of the education to each patient in an individual way since not everyone learns the same way. There are other changes that can be implemented, but starting with these two, will make a difference in patient education about falls.
Reference:
Heng H, Kiegaldie D, Slade SC, Jazayeri D, Shaw L, Knight M, et al. (2022) Healthcare professional perspectives on barriers and enablers to falls prevention education: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0266797. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0266797