My main takeaway from this topic proposal and review is that through using automated urine output devices it can improve the timeliness of documentation without compromising accuracy of documentation. This can be very useful in reducing nursing workload, fatigue, and most importantly, nursing error. This gives nurses more time and energy to focus on other lifesaving interventions. Researching this topic reinforced the importance of documenting input and output as this data is very important for making potentially lifesaving decisions for patients. I have seen nurses overlook or forget to document input and output before in clinical and in my work as a CNA. This made this topic especially important to me as it seems to be neglected at times.
Researching this topic did not change any assumptions I previously had. Having the experience from clinical and the work done in the classroom I think helped with this. My team also did not need to revise the topic proposal that much. We just had to make very minor tweaks with the formatting and citations. Our group was also successful in finding a wide range of peer reviewed articles. This was a benefit of having so many group members. Because of this, we were able to pick and choose from a wide variety of articles for our proposal. Lastly, having a larger group was useful for revising our proposal and providing feedback to each other. This helped us to put forth our best work and ideas.
On the other side of things, there were some minor difficulties. It was difficult for me to find times to meet as I was not a part of my groups clinical. This made it hard to find times to meet and work together. However, I was able to work through these difficulties as one of our group members was also my roommates so this made communication much easier.
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