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Research Summary: Nursing Grand Rounds (NGR)

Research Summary: Nursing Grand Rounds (NGR)

Medical-Surgical nursing is my current area of practice. I have learned that medical-surgical practice requires efficient nursing professionalism to ensure the positive patient outcome. There is a need for the improvement of nursing professionalism. Therefore, the title of the research review is Nursing Grand Rounds (NGR). NGR is a method used by several hospitals to shed light on and improve the development of nursing professionalism (Valizadeh et al., 2019).

The main purpose for selecting this paper is to enhance the implementation of NGR in hospitals and other clinical facilities which aids improve the art of nursing practice and supports evidence-based nursing. The study aims to classify the existing NGR studies and conduct an integrative review. The methodology of the study was done via online databases which include Science Direct, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Medline, PubMed, Google Scholar, Irandoc, and SID (Valizadeh et al., 2019).

The authors used specific searching keywords which are evidence-based practice, nursing, and ground rounds. The search was within the scope of study between 2000 and 2019. Cooper's five-step approach was used for the examination and integration of the existing NGR concept. The steps include identification of a problem, literature search, evaluation of the findings, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of the findings/results.

Results of the study showed that NGR provides a dynamic and innovative way to develop evidence-based and continuous learning to improve patient outcomes. In conclusion, NGR implementation creates a social setting for learning the art and science of nursing as well as supporting evidence-based nursing. Therefore, it is recommended healthcare facilities consider the implementation of the NGR method to develop evidence-based practice and education in nursing (Griffiths et al., 2020).

References

Valizadeh, L., Zamanzadeh, V., Namadi, M., & Alizadeh, S. (2019). Nursing grand rounds: an integrative review. Medical-Surgical Nursing Journal, 8(3). DOI: 10.5812/msnj.97107.

Griffiths, P., Saville, C., Ball, J. E., Chable, R., Dimech, A., Jones, J., & Monks, T. (2020). The Safer Nursing Care Tool as a guide to nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards: observational and modelling study. NIHR Journals Library, Southampton (UK); 2020. PMID: 32223117.