Critical appraisal tool
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WK5AssgnEmersonL.pptxPicot Question Mental Illness Leicy Emerson Instructor: Dr. Mary Bemker July 01, 2021 NURS 6052
Introduction
Mental health is a critical issue today.
Nurses dealing with issue lack skills
Nurses need to need to up-skill to deal with mental illness.
Severe mental illnesses which include the major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and others aggravated by substance use have affected people in all age groups worldwide including the developed countries such as Canada, United States and European Union countries. However, if not well abated, mental disorders could be a major health task and a possible pandemic issue.
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Clinical issue of interest
Mental illness needs to be mitigated.
patients with psychological disorders requires acute care.
need for a psychiatric nurse to care for mentally ill.
Nurses needs proper knowledge to enhance mentally ill patients.
For this reason, it is possible for the matter to be adequately approached if the nurses treating the patients with mental illnesses have the required skills and knowledge . Since patients with psychiatric disorders requires acute care in moments of crisis, there is a huge need for a psychiatric nurse. The nurses caring for people with mentally illness requires to be well equipped with proper skills to handle these patients.
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Development of a PICO(T) question
The issue of interest concerns understanding knowledge nurse needs caring for mentally ill
Nurses needs knowledge to enhance mentally ill patients
To inquire on the matter we formulate PICO(T) question
PICO(T) is (p)population or patient ,intervention(I) issue of interest, (C)outcome interest(O) and time taken to realize the outcome(T) (Abbade et al., 2017).
In order to inquire on the matter, there is a need to formulate a clinical question to address (p)intervention(I) issue of interest, (C)outcome interest(O) and time taken to realize the outcome(T). This approach is referred to as PICO(T) format (Abbade et al., 2017).
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PICO(T) Analysis
P-this includes the population affected by mental illness
I-involves the intervention for the treatment of the patients
C-involve comparison for non-treatment as an alternative.
O-This analysis the outcome of patient treatment; how successful was the treatment
PICO(T) question is; what knowledge a nurse needs to have to enhance mental ill patients?
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Four research databases
databases were utilized, and this includes;
MEDLINE, CINAHL, GOOGLE SCHOLAR , MEDLINE VIA PUBMED@UIC and COCHRANE LIBRARY
When carrying out research, it is essential to use scholarly sites simply because most scholarly works and Journal’s publications cannot be found on the google search engine. It is also vital to use resources published within the last five years (Supriyanto et al., 2019). While researching the clinical issue, several databases were utilized, and this includes; MEDLINE and CINAHL.
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Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected
Article #1;
explain why nurses need more skill.
Defines the need for workshop for nurses.
Upskilling allows new nurses to increase knowledge.
mixed-method allowed collection of Quantitative and qualitative data.
Study finding indicates important of upskilling for nurses.
Article 2#;
Articulate the important of upskilling employees skills.
Indicate that Healthcare organizations have responsibility to retain their workers
Gives information on how organizations benefit from training nurses.
explores how employees benefit.
Study reveals the participants attitude towards upskilling.
Study used unbiased participants and open-ended process.
Example; TAWs improving employability was important for TAWs and staffs agencies.
Various strategy in order to improve the effectiveness of searching data using my PICO(T) question. Some of these approaches include applying specific methods to retrieve evidence-based scholarly reviewed articles using scholarly websites.
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Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected Cont….
Article #3
Nurses need skills to care for patients.
Healthcare assistants has an important role in managing patients.
Study help understand participants emotions on training and health assistants roles.
For example; helping people with dementia.
The article offer importance of nurses upskilling to provide better care.
Article #4
The article highlights the plight of nurses working in community health centers.
Community nurses deals with patients with diverse needs.
Community nurses need to be equipped with knowledge.
The article provides the importance of retaining community workers.
It highlight challenges of training community nurses.
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Work cited
Watkins, A., Stein-Parbury, J., Denney-Wilson, E., Ward, P. B., & Rosenbaum, S. (2020). Upskilling Mental Health Nurses to Address the Burden of Poor Metabolic Health: A Mixed Method Evaluation. Issues in mental health nursing, 41(10), 925-931.
Rajthilak, R., Singh, S., & Alok, S. (2021). Performance and Upskilling: Indian IT Sector Temporary Workers’ Job Insecurity Coping Strategies Identified Through Grounded Theory. Business Perspectives and Research, 22785337211006794.
Jansen, B. D. W., Brazil, K., Passmore, P., Buchanan, H., Maxwell, D., McIlfatrick, S. J., ... & Parsons, C. (2017). Exploring healthcare assistants’ role and experience in pain assessment and management for people with advanced dementia towards the end of life: a qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care, 16(1), 1-11.
Pringle, S. A. (2017). The challenges of upskilling health care assistants in community nursing. British journal of community nursing, 22(6), 284-288.
Abbade, L. P., Wang, M., Sriganesh, K., Jin, Y., Mbuagbaw, L., & Thabane, L. (2017). The framing of research questions using the PICOT format in randomized controlled trials of venous ulcer disease is suboptimal: a systematic survey. Wound Repair and Regeneration, 25(5), 892-900.
