The main purpose of this paper is to look at the impact of psilocybin therapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Psilocybin is a psychedelic that shows very promising results for those who are resistant to medication therapy. These promising results include participants of the study feeling depressive symptoms decrease after one day of psilocybin therapy.
Research
Final Reflection
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
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.
