Professional Capstone and practicum
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Professional Capstone and Practicum
Nanah Kamara Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: As previously stated in your other papers, this is not the correct title page per APA guidelines. Please let me know what questions you have about this.
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Literature ReviewProfessional Capstone and Practicum
Introduction
Falls and the injuries that arise from them constitute a huge problem for healthcare providers such as nurses, the affected individuals, communities and the government. This is because not only are falls expensive to manage, but they impose huge financial and non-financial burdens to the healthcare providers and system. This has led to increased focus and research attention towards the best practices of preventing or reducing falls in healthcare facilities generating an increased body of literature regarding the topic and especially focusing on the nurses given the huge role that they play being the primary caregivers. Based on the background, this paper provides a literature review of studies on fall and their related injuries that focus on finding possible interventions to enable nurses to prevent or reduce the prevalence of falls. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Good intro and thesis.
Comparing research questions
In conducting the study, eight peer-reviewed publications and articles were reviewed to provide data regarding the implementation of interventions and strategies aimed at reducing or preventing falls and their associated injury. Most of the studies had huge similarities when it came to the issue of research questions in that they sought to explore the strategies for fall prevention or the factors that are responsible for in-hospital falls. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed; paragraphs should be at least three sentences.
For instance Tricco, Thomas, Veroniki, Hamid, Cogo, Strifler & Rivaet al., (2017) in their study “Comparisons of interventions for preventing falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis” provide a detailed exploration of the different strategies and approaches that have been previously used in preventing falls while Natalie Callis, (2016) “ prevention: Identification of predictive fall risk factors” explores the factors that lead to falls within health facilities. For example and according to Natalie Callis, (2016), fall and their associated injuries occur due to insufficient training, poor communication, hospital design, and lack of leadership among others. Subsequently, the construct of the research questions provide a basis for which the association between the topic of falls and their associated injuries and the PICOT question for the study can be drawn. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed
Comparing the sample population
Most of the studies selected for the review had been developed through systematic reviews. This implied that the authors adopted a specific, detailed approach to answering specific research questions. In addition, the authors relied on studies regarding the topic for the data used during development. Most of the studies drew data from government and literature sources such as MEDLINE, CENTRAL, Health Management Information Consortium, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro). Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed
Subsequently, the studies were able to capture huge populations from the reviewed studies and their responses towards the issue of fall reduction or prevention and the role that nurses can play in ensuring that falls and their associated injuries are reduced within the hospital facilities. For instance, Tricco, Thomas, Veroniki, Hamid, Cogo, Strifler & Riva, (2017) in their study reviewed 54 publications with a population of 41596 while Cameron, Dyer, Panagoda, Murray, Hill, Cumming & Kerse, (2018) in their study “Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals” Recorded 95 trials and 138,164 participants from their reviews an indication of the extent through which the studies went during data collection. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed
Moreover, the studies were developed through evidence from nurses, government officials, health leaders and the general public to ensure that all stakeholders of the health system were taken into account and to provide valid, accurate and reliable information on the issue of falls as well as the strategies for ensuring that falls are reduced or prevented in line with the health goals that are captured under the Healthy 2020 program. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed; paragraphs should be at least three sentences.
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Comparing study limitations
The studies used in the development of the paper as shown provide important and comprehensive data can be used in answering the PICOT question. Despite this, the study suffers from the shortcomings of using a literature review as the basis for data collection. For example, the use of a literature review makes it difficult to independently verify the data or findings from other studies. In addition, by reviewing a few studies, the research may leave out very important pieces of information regarding the topic or PICOT question. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed
However, the use of peer-reviewed sources to carry out the research helps to eliminate some of the limitations of the study by ensuring that the data obtained has been thoroughly scrutinized and that the findings are reliable, accurate and valid. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Reference needed; paragraphs should be at least three sentences.
Conclusion
In conclusion, all studies under review indicated that there exists a huge problem when it comes to the issue of falls and injuries of individuals or patients within a health facility. Regardless there exists a positive association between the training of nurses on injury prevention or reduction and a decline in the number of falls. There is, therefore, a need for additional research to identify both the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that lead to falls, evidence-based practices that can reduce or prevent fall and the role of the caregivers such as nurses in preventing or reducing falls and their associated injuries.
Nanah, you appropriately compared the settings, samples, and limitations of your literature. You also included recommendations for future research. There were a few inconsistencies with APA I noted for you. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! -E Nelson
References
Cameron, I. D., Dyer, S. M., Panagoda, C. E., Murray, G. R., Hill, K. D., Cumming, R. G., & Kerse, N. (2018). Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (9). Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: This is a database, but what journal did the article originate?
Tricco, A. C., Thomas, S. M., Veroniki, A. A., Hamid, J. S., Cogo, E., Strifler, L., ... & Riva, J. J. (2017). Comparisons of interventions for preventing falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Jama, 318(17), 1687-1699. Comment by Nelson, Emily Jeanette: Spell our Journal names
