Evidence Based Nursing

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Evidence Based Nursing
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Evidence Based Nursing
Introduction
Resuscitation is one of the common techniques that are performed during emergence in
hospital settings. The event always results in stress for physicians, nurses, and people who are
near. As a result of its advanced effects, questions have been raised on whether relatives and
friends should be allowed to witness the resuscitation of their loved ones.
Based on the search question, “should family members be allowed to be present during the
resuscitation of a loved one in the acute care settings?” I had to find out the best strategy to get
high relevance evidence from both qualitative and quantitative articles. I had to follow step by
step to get high-quality evidence. My first step was to identify the key concepts and key terms
within my chosen research question in the clinical scenario. In this case, the primary search
concept that I identified includes
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Family members Resuscitation Acute care Present
Family centered
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Resuscitation
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Hospital settings Family presence
After determining the key concepts in my research question, the next step was to select the
most relevant databases and resources. In this research question scenario, I choose to include
approved health science databases such as Embase, PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library,
Scopus and Google Scholar. The next research strategy step was to combine the key search terms

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and concepts together with the Boolean operator. The next stage was running the searches in the
selected databases, reviewing, and then refining my search results.
Findings
One of the articles that I found in my research strategy is (Fridh, Forsberg and Bergbom,
2009). The primary aim of the study was to find out the experience of nurses and physicians in
their perception of caring of patients who are in critical conditions in the presence of their family
members. The research allowed relatives of the patient whose aim was to provide an enduring
memory of their loved ones. According to the article, the patients who died with the absence of
their relatives and friends were comsidered as tragic (Oczkowski et al. 2015).
According to (Hung and Pang, 2011), the concept of inviting family members or a relative to
witness the resuscitation of their patients is not common. The findings from the study show that
many nurses and physicians fears for the psychological trauma to relatives, medicolegal issues,
possible disruptions by family members and performance anxiety among the health care
professionals.
A survey to find out whether the presence of family and relatives should be allowed during
cardiovascular resuscitation was conducted (James, Cottle and Hodge, 2011). According to the
results of the findings, 64 percent of the families believed that if they had been allowed to
witness the cardiovascular resuscitation of their patient, it would have relieved their distress.
Also, 76 percent of families and relatives who were allowed to witness resuscitation believed
that their presence relieved their sorrow. Additionally, 64 percent of the families that were
allowed to witness believed that their presence strengthened their patient.