Through evidence appraisal and synthesis, I discovered a lot more about the variety of psychological effects that can occur after a traumatic amputation. The literature appraisal and synthesis did not really change my assumptions on the topic of amputations, but rather affirmed our research question and topic. It was interesting to see recurring themes of some of the most common psychological effects (depression, PTSD) throughout each of the research articles. No matter what field of nursing I go into, something that I can take with me from this research is that the mental health of patients is equally as important as their physical health, especially after a traumatic event. It is important to take the patients mental wellbeing into your care, as it can have a big effect on their healing. My teammate and I arrived at similar conclusions about the finding of this research. We both agreed that it was interesting to see the similarities and patterns of healing in many of the patients following an amputation. Our team process is going smoothly, we were both able to split up the work evenly, and help each other if there were any questions.
Category: PICOT
Our team did need to revise our topic and question slightly. Our topic involves mental health and psychological affects after an amputation. We ended up getting rid of the time component as it wasn’t necessary and thinking more about what specific negative psychological effects we could look into such as anxiety, anger, hostility, and the tendency towards social isolation. It was a bit challenging to revise our PICOT question at first, but I feel that we were able to make some good improvements. A success we experienced was finding three good articles for our paper. We looked into a lot of articles regarding amputation and decided ours should be focused more on traumatic amputations versus planned amputations. I think focusing on traumatic amputations will make it easier to explore negative psychological effects. Our process of finding the articles worked well as we each picked a few we though would work, and then went through the articles together to pick the most relevant ones.
I think that this team project will be accomplished through setting out clear goals and ideas to keep us on track. Our communication plan involves splitting up the work evenly and keeping a google doc of all our ideas and notes that we can put towards our project. We have been using this to help decide on our topic for our final paper. We can hold ourselves accountable by setting clear due dates for when we need to get a section of the project done and reminding each other about what work we need to complete. Our plan for conflict management involves being open with each other if we feel someone is not doing enough work and making checklists for each of us to stick to, although I do not think we will face any barriers during this project. One benefit to completing this project as a team is that we can bounce ideas off each other and learn how to collaborate while doing research. This will be helpful in future nursing practice as healthcare workers of different professions often come together to work with each other on research and finding the best way to provide quality patient care.
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