Reflection of Proposal
Was there enough available literature? Was this idea based on your seeing a need on your unit? For this proposal creating a project for a unit at Maine Medical Center was an exciting experience for me. It was unique to be able to create and apply a project on a floor that I had been on for two months. Starting off the project it was fun to see with my clinical group what were complications on the floor we were on. I had done proposals before but being able to conduct one that actually pertained to a floor I was on weekly made it that much more exciting. This particular clinical group I am in works exceedingly well together, so the project went very smoothly. We met up weekly and utilized Zoom to get together. Everyone worked well together and we all put in equal amounts of work. I am overall very satisfied with this clinical group and it saddens me for this to be my last semester with them. We found excess amounts of literature on alarm fatigue for telemetry units, so there were no issues there. ProQuest was used by every group member and we each found one article to contribute. I cannot wait to present our pamphlet to the floor and see if they implement any of our findings!
Attached above is a brochure that my group and I created for the floor that we participated in clinical of fall 2020.
Since Grace was able to go to the floor during her preceptorship, we decided to give the brochure to the unit manager to be distributed to the nurses throughout the floor. We were reported back to that the unit manager was very eager and excited to pass this out to the nurses and have them be engaged in our findings. We were all very excited to be able to create a project that can be implemented on an actual floor among nurses. Being this involved in so many aspects made the project that much more intriguing.
Regarding feedback from the floor, we have not heard anything. For us, this was expected especially in the times we are experiencing now. With COVID-19, we all are understanding the nurses are very occupied. We are sure that the floor has reviewed our brochure and we are understanding there are higher priorities right now for patient care.
