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Final Project Topic

Final Project Topic

I selected the question: Analyze differences among research, evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, comparative effectiveness research, outcomes research, and quality improvement. How do these practices affect nursing and patient outcomes? 

Selected References

Davis, K., Gorst, S. L., Harman, N., Smith, V., Gargon, E., Altman, D. G., ... & Williamson, P. R. (2018). Choosing important health outcomes for comparative effectiveness research: An updated systematic review and involvement of low and middle-income countries. PloS one, 13(2), e0190695.

Davies, C., Lyons, C., & Whyte, R. (2019). Optimizing nursing time in a daycare unit: Quality improvement using Lean Six Sigma methodology. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 31(Supplement_1), 22-28.

Eppley, K., Azano, A. P., Brenner, D. G., & Shannon, P. (2018). What counts as evidence in rural schools? Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence for diverse settings. The Rural Educator, 39(2).

Fiset, V. J., Graham, I. D., & Davies, B. L. (2017). Evidence-based practice in clinical nursing education: A scoping review. Journal of Nursing Education, 56(9), 534-541.

Forsythe, L., Heckert, A., Margolis, M. K., Schrandt, S., & Frank, L. (2018). Methods and impact of engagement in research, from theory to practice and back again: early findings from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Quality of Life Research, 27(1), 17-31.

Gargon, E., Gorst, S. L., Harman, N. L., Smith, V., Matvienko-Sikar, K., & Williamson, P. R. (2018). Choosing important health outcomes for comparative effectiveness research: 4th annual update to a systematic review of core outcome sets for research. PloS one, 13(12), e0209869.

Free Union REFLECTION

Let us agree that this is not the type of love poem that we would wish to receive or describe us. I take that back. If you would or think that almost any show of dedication is sought, then I understand.

In university, a graduate engineering student recited to me several lines from the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I thought that was distressing. Here’s the beginning.

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo….

The point is it was his effort and I was too young to appreciate it. He related the title and the fact that I was an English major. Give him points for effort.

Do you see? We use the tools at our disposal. We use what reveals our heart and mind. Free Union is the free association of images that describe and define “the” woman’s attributes. It is organic and sensual. It is the author’s voice that flows almost without frame. It is as Breton sees and what he wishes could be.

Free Union

André Breton (France)

Pronounce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vJXBBxFvc

Philosophical question: Is anyone ever free to do what he/she wishes? Are there consequences from decisions?

Societal question: What is a union?

Breton’s poem, Free Union, is a well establish example of Surrealism that illustrates his basic principles of composition. Using automatic writing and free association, he exudes a spontaneity of emotion. The poem is assigned by critics as manifesting art’s power to reveal the subconscious where desire, dream, fantasy, and intuition exist.

His description of perhaps his perfect woman uses images that are rarely construed as romantic by the recipient. They are extremely organic. But they are his visi0n, his order, his sense of seeing. In this lecture are two student views of some of his definitions of his “wife.”

His wife’s sensuality (as he sees it, as he imagines it) and his increasing desire are rendered in extraordinary measure. It is significant to note that he was not married at the time of the poem’s writing. The poem is a cluster of seemingly unrelated images, but requires study to see the interconnectedness or juxtaposition of parts. The above image and the one that follows capture some of the elements.

Clearly anatomy is defined and in unusual imagery. Think of tactile as well as visual.

Notice the repetition. The woman is “My Wife.” No name. No humanity. No sense of who she is as a person. How does he see this woman? Hint: My.