FPX 4030 Best Places to Complete Research and Types of Resources to access to find Pertinent Information

Best Places to Complete Research and Types of Resources to access to find Pertinent Information

Besides being a teaching and a leading hospital in education, the institution is proud to have one of the nationally known computer laboratories, which enables access to vast resources that may influence clinical decision-making. The computer lab offers free internet access and free logins to different credible medical databases, which any healthcare professionals, students, and trainees linked with the organization may use to obtain pertinent information.

Aside from the computer lab, other areas of the hospital with computers and reliable internet access that can be used to access relevant data include the research department, medical-surgical floor, nurses and physician workstations, theatre, IT/health informatics room, patient monitoring room, and imaging department. According to Kim et al. (2020), the search for credible information starts with knowledge of the relevant databases and the subject or healthcare issue in question. As a result, the first step necessitates considerable work in obtaining evidence from appropriate databases, and it determines whether the subsequent stages of evidence application into practice will be productive.

Five Sources of Online Information that provide the Best Evidence for the Chosen Diagnosis

CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, ProQuest, and the Cochrane Library are among the medical databases that will be useful. The search terms will include “epidemiology of COPD,” “risk factors of COPD,” “clinical features of COPD,” “assessment and evaluation of patients with COPD,” and “management of COPD.” Journal articles, guidelines from national ministries or health organizations such as WHO, and data from credible websites such as the CDC will be utilized. Utilization of the aforementioned search techniques generated the five articles listed below.

Why the Sources provide the Best Evidence for the Chosen Diagnosis

The sources cited are from the most credible medical databases and were authored by medical cognoscenti. Furthermore, some of the sources are published by globally known health organizations that have long been relied on to give credible medical information. Moreover, the sources obtained were published within the previous five years, guaranteeing that the information is current and practical. The reasons given above forecast the reliability and credibility of the sources and, hence why they were selected to influence practice in relation to the nursing practical scenario provided

Conclusion

Healthcare research has been around since antiquity, and if anything has changed, it has only become better and more advanced. Healthcare practitioners are urged to apply research-based findings to provide consistently improved patient care. This demands the ability to search credible medical and nursing databases to obtain relevant information that can be applied in practice.

To foster research competence, baccalaureate curricula have included nursing research into the pedagogy, preparing nurses for dynamically evolving patient care. While significant progress has been made, there is still a gap, particularly in the treatment of chronic illnesses such as COPD, where many specialists may provide opposing views on care. The competing viewpoints highlight the importance of a healthcare professional’s ability to acquire reliable resources and sift through them to discover the best justified research-based conclusions that match the requirements of their patients.

References

Celli, B. R., & Wedzicha, J. A. (2019). Update on clinical aspects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The New England Journal of Medicine, 381(13), 1257–1266. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra1900500

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. (2018). Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2018 Report. Goldcopd.org. https://goldcopd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GOLD-2018-v6.0-FINAL-revised-20-Nov_WMS.pdf

Kim, M., Mallory, C., & Valerio, T. (2020). Statistics for evidence-based practice in nursing (3rd ed.). Jones and Bartlett. https://books.google.at/books?id=5LEEEAAAQBAJ

Mirza, S., Clay, R. D., Koslow, M. A., & Scanlon, P. D. (2018). COPD guidelines: A review of the 2018 GOLD report. Mayo Cl