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Final Reflection

jchapdelaine Collaboration, EBP 1, Professionalism, Research May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

During this team project, I learned much about major depressive disorder and some of the treatments that can help it. For some individuals with major depressive disorder, traditional methods like medications do not work to relieve their symptoms. For my team’s research project, we focused on the new treatment of psilocybin therapy. Psilocybin is a psychedelic that has shown effectiveness in the relief of symptoms of major depressive disorder for up to four weeks. I believe that being up to date with new treatments is very important as a nurse. This is so nurses can explain new therapies to patients to give them more options to choose from. Giving the patients options about their care can help them feel empowered in their decisions.

My team’s process to write this paper went very smoothly. We all communicated and delegated parts of the paper for each of us to write. As a team member, I discovered that I can be a good communicator and work well with others.

From Inquiry through Discovery

jchapdelaine Collaboration, EBP 1, PICOT, Research February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

My group’s original thought for a searchable PICOT question was “In patients with mental illnesses, how does psilocybin compared to conventional pharmacological methods affect patient outcomes within one year of diagnosis?”. The problem with this question is that it’s hard to identify what the nurse’s role is with the information. With a little more group thought and with the help of our professors, we came to our final PICOT question, “In patients with major depression, how does psilocybin compared to conventional pharmacological therapies affect symptom management?”. This question is still broad, but specific enough to tell that the nurse’s role in this information is being up to date with treatment options and helping inform patients about treatment options. A challenge we had with this part of the project was trying to come up with a question that fit the nurse’s scope of practice. This subject is something me and my teammates are very interested in, and we are happy to be able to come up with a question that fits within a nurse’s scope of practice.

Planning the Journey

jchapdelaine Collaboration, EBP 1, PICOT February 6, 2022

For this team project, I anticipate that our teamwork will be effective in writing a great final paper. My teammates and I are close friends and regularly see each other outside of class. This can help us meet in person to work on the project. To choose a topic for this project, we each mentioned a few different things we were interested in. From the few things we mentioned, we collectively agreed on an interesting topic. I am personally excited to further explore the topic we chose.

Clear communication and proper delegation of tasks are essential when working with a team. A useful way my team and I have decided to communicate is making a group chat. This group chat can be helpful for things like questions, making plans to meet, and deciding which parts of the project each team member is responsible for. Each member completing the parts of the project they are responsible for is very important to completing the project and avoiding conflict. If a member of the team does not complete their part of the project, talking directly to the team member about it would be my first step. If the team member does not do their part after being talked to, I would then go to the professor to ask for help. I do not anticipate any barriers to working with this team for this project.