Gum Chewing Aids Bowel Function Return and Analgesic Requirements After Bowel Surgery

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Nursing
Name of the Student
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Part 2
Answer1
Short-terms are like keywords. It helps to fetch out accurate and relevant articles from
the databases. The use of long descriptive sentences might increase the overall search time
and decrease the number of relevant hits (Parahoo 2014).
Answer 2
The short-terms are required to be specific. Here specific terms means the terms
which coincide with the scope of the research questions or the research topic. The use of the
specific terms instead of broad terms helps to decrease the search time and relevancy of the
search (Parahoo 2014).
Answer 3
Tanner’s Model of Clinical Judgement defines the importance of the clinical
judgement of a nursing professional over observation, analysis or reflection of any available
information. The clinical judgement of a nursing professional is mainly guided by the
evidence based practice. As per the available evidences, the nurses guides themselves in the
decision making process. This is the underlying relationship between the Tanner’s Model of
the Clinical Judgement and Evidence Based Practice (Cappelletti, Engel and Prentice 2014).
According to Cappelletti, Engel and Prentice (2014) evidence based practice is generated
through the available clinical expertise with proven positive results over the overall
progression in the therapy plan and the patients’ well-being. Thus on the basis of the
evidences, the final clinical judgement of the nursing professional is being directed. Tanner’s
Clinical Judgement Model is based over 200 research studies depending on the way over
which the nursing professional have acted upon. The process of clinical judgement as per the

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Tanner’s model is mainly modulated by noticing, interpreting, responding and reflection of
the current practice (Cappelletti, Engel and Prentice 2014).
Answer 4
Systematic review is a review of the randomised controls trials made over any
common research topic. This falls under the level one of the evidence based practice.
Systematic review over the randomised control trials help in the generation of the evidence
based practice (Parahoo 2014).
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Answer 5
According to Hemming et al. (2015), randomised control trails (RCTs) help to
increase the overall quality of the research via decreasing the chances of getting biased
outcomes.
Answer: 6
Primary outcome: Time of discharge, time of first flatus and time of first bowel
motion.
Secondary outcome: Pain and total morphine equivalent medicine for seven days and
Complications rates
Answer 7
The pain was accessed on the basis of the pains score in the scale of 0 to 10. 10 is the
worst condition. Pain was recorded during patient’s bowel movement