Healthcare Research: Analysis of Week 4 Discussion Post at Walden

This assignment analyzes a student's discussion post regarding an article on exercise and fall prevention among the elderly. The student discusses the relevance of the article to their work in a post-surgical rehabilitation facility and highlights the impact of balance and functional exercises on reducing fall rates. The assignment also compares the effectiveness of the Walden University digital library versus Google Scholar for accessing scholarly resources, emphasizing the library's comprehensive nature and filtering capabilities. Furthermore, the analysis acknowledges the role of psychiatric nurses in patient care and the ease of finding peer-reviewed articles within the Walden library. The references include key sources like Jordan (2017), Martin-Martin et al. (2017), Orthwein (2017), and Sherrington et al. (2016), which support the student's arguments and provide a solid foundation for the discussion. The student's reflections showcase their understanding of research methods and resource utilization in healthcare settings.

Running head: RESPONSE
Discussion post
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1RESPONSE
Response 1
The student correctly identified the article and mentioned that while complete prevention
of fall is not possible, exercises that play an emphasis on strength training and balance have the
probability of reducing risk of falling for elderly adults (Sherrington et al., 2016). The student
was also correct in discussing about the benefits of Walden University digital library over
Google scholar. This can be accredited to the fact that the library acts like a digital repository of
scholarly contents, particularly academic books and journals that can be used by all students.
This ensures greater data integrity and also enhances data access to all students, through the
usage of several filters and limiters that help in extraction of scientific sources that are important
to the phenomenon being investigated (Jordan, 2017). In contrast though Google's coverage is
wide-ranging, it lacks comprehensiveness and also does not allow the users to restrict their
results to full-text materials, peer reviewed articles, or according to the discipline (Martin-Martin
et al., 2017).

2RESPONSE
Response 2
The student was correct in emphasizing the fact that psychiatric nurses are responsible for
several activities that range from developing and offering care to the patients, to providing them
assistance with their emotional issues (Orthwein, 2017). It was correctly mentioned that
identification and extraction of peer reviewed articles related to psychiatric nursing and dentistry
was much easier while using the Walden university library access. Not only does the library
provide access to numerous databases containing articles written by credible authors who are
experts in their domain, it also helps the users to quickly retrieve the information required by
entering appropriate search terms, and categorizing the findings based on their language and year
of publication and peer reviewed status (Jordan, 2017). Hence, it serves as a great source of
academic support for the students, unlike Google scholar where the sources need to be assessed
for quality and authority, and there are no tools for sorting out the results (Martin-Martin et al.,
2017).

3RESPONSE
References
Jordan, P. (2017). The academic library and its users. Routledge.
Martin-Martin, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Harzing, A. W., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2017). Can we use
Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?. Journal of informetrics, 11(1), 152-
163.
Orthwein, W. C. (2017). Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring. CRC Press.
Sherrington, C., Fairhall, N., Kirkham, C., Clemson, L., Howard, K., Vogler, C., ... &
Sonnabend, D. (2016). Exercise and fall prevention self-management to reduce mobility-
related disability and falls after fall-related lower limb fracture in older people: protocol
for the RESTORE (Recovery Exercises and STepping On afteR fracturE) randomised
controlled trial. BMC geriatrics, 16(1), 34.