Through evidence appraisal and synthesis, I discovered a lot about my team’s topic of amount of exercise related to depression symptoms in college-aged people. Although our topic was specific to an age group I was surprised with the number of articles and appraisal there were for it. The literature appraisal and synthesis did not change my assumptions on this topic. Most of the appraisals showed that with exercise depression symptoms decreased, which was my original assumption. These findings will impact my future nursing practice because I will incorporate exercise into almost every care plan I create. Before reading these articles, I knew exercise was important to maintain proper mental and physical health. However, I know have numerous articles that helped me understand why exercise was so important. I plan to incorporate these finding a lot in my future nursing practice. My team members and I all had similar assumptions about this topic, so we all arrived at very similar conclusions about the findings. Although we came to the same conclusions and there were no challenges to our collaboration, if there were we would make sure to all meet up and talk though these challenges.
Category: PICOT
After my team completed the PICOT question, we did have to revise it slightly. We needed to be more specific on the idea of quality of life in our question. We were challenged with how to change the question to be more specific but also still make sense for what we wanted to do. We solved this challenge by talking through it together, each of us came up with different ways to say the question/statement and pulled ideas from each group member to make a more thorough PICOT question. Through this challenge, we were able to succeed on having a better, well-formed question. We did not have any challenges with team collaboration, each team member participated actively. If we had problems, we would have sat down and spoken through the problem to achieve success.
I believe this team project will be accomplished through communication and creating equal parts for each team member. We will accomplish this through communication by creating a group chat through text, meeting in person to discuss the work, and creating a google document that everyone can work on. We will all hold each other accountable by breaking up the work equally and reminding members to finish their work by the due date. If someone is not completing their designated work or there are any other conflicts, the other team members will meet with that person and figure out a solution. The benefits of working with others are being able to break up the work and prove the best work for each member. There is less work for each member when everyone is doing their part. The barriers of collaborative projects are some members not putting as much work in as others and disagreements within the team. Collaborative projects will be useful now because in the field of nursing there are numerous members of a team working together to create the best plan for patients. Nursing is an interprofessional field, so working with others and figuring out the best way to partake in collaboration will benefit us in the future.
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