Don’t Go Pokemon Go ….& if you must, watch out! New privacy and safety dangers are being recorded almost every day. The game is full of health and computer hazards, and has potential to distract workers from their life-saving care.
What is the evidence? At this point mostly anecdotal reports and the anticipated possibility that healthcare workers could be distracted from life-saving work. You need to translate this evidence into action. Why would you do this with such relatively weak research evidence? Because the risks are far higher to ignore it, & essentially NO risks if you use the evidence. The BBB lists these problems & makes some suggestions based on incoming reports:
Privacy: In order to play the game, users must allow the app to access other 
applications, such as maps and camera. The iOS version for the iPhone can access all Google data.- Malware: So far, the app is only available in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, which has given cybercriminals an opportunity to capitalize on the demand…. Users should only download the app through official app stores, not third-party sites.
Safety: Players should use the same safety precautions while playing the game that they would in any other outdoor setting, including caution in strange location.
- 2 men in Encinitas fell off 50-90 foot cliffs while playing
- Distracted driving is responsible for 1 of 10 traffic fatalities. Do not Pokeman & drive. Watch for distracted people playing Pokemon Go and walking into traffice. Don’t do the same yourself.
- The app drains phone batteries so don’t get stranded far from home or in places that are not safe.
- Robbers have used Pokeman Go to lure and rob victims.
- Infringement: PokeStops are supposed to all be on public property (or cooperative
private sites), but at least one health system, Dignity Health, is asking that its facilities be removed to avoid dangers to privacy and safety of patients, visitors, families & staff.
Translating this evidence into practice? Think before you Pokemon Go, if at all. Talk to your patients–when people don’t feel well they are even more likely to be distracted.
Critical thinking? 1) List specific actions that you will do to promote privacy, safety and fight malware and infringement. These can range from “never download;never play” to…..? When developing this list specifically address the challenges above. 2) What about patient players? staff players? visitor players? How should you help them to be safe?
• A health system that began seeking input from patients and families 
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In pain management are you afraid to give comfort to your patients with appropriate medications? Are you afraid to be comforted when in pain? Have you encountered families or care partners, who are afraid to comfort their loved one in pain by giving pain medications?
information. We have to find evidence-based practices that can create a change of heart, if you will. As Zerwekh et al wrote: “Because fear is so influential in decisions to keep pain under control, palliative educational approaches must go beyond providing information to fill deficits in palliative knowledge.”
practice pain assessment & management safely. We know
that asking patients about suicidal intent does not cause them to commit suicide. Does asking patients about pain cause them to have it or to treat pain they don’t have? Hmmm…..
Myth #5: The Joint Commission pain standards caused a sharp rise in opioid prescriptions. This claim is completely contradicted by data from the 
suggest that we might need new studies. I hope only that we won’t jump on the fear bandwagon. Keep practice EVIDENCE BASED, listen to patient/carepartner preferences & values, & use your judgment. 
present your project in a poster. Quite a bit, it turns out! Some posters are definitely better than others.
Critique this poster or another using the “60 second poster evaluation” at 
Google–not to mention yahoo, bing & other web search engines–are mere popularity contests of literature. Google Scholar is a step up, but it is still a search engine. It can miss important articles entirely.
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Critical thinking: What is something in nursing that has been “bugging” you. Missed care–e.g., inability to get all the tasks done on time? Or discharge med teaching? Or the
numbers. Another problem will occur if the reliability and validity of the self-report questionnaire is not established. (Reliability is consistency in measurement and validity is the accuracy of measuring what it purports to measure.) Additionally, self-reports typically provide only a)ordinal level data, such as on a 1-to-5 scale, b) nominal data, such as on a yes/no scale, or c) qualitative descriptions in words without categories or numbers. (Ordinal data=scores are in order with some numbers higher than others, and nominal data = categories. Statistical calculations are limited for both and not possible for qualitative data unless the researcher counts themes or words that recur.)
An example of a self-report measure that we regard as a gold standard for clinical and research data = 0-10 pain scale score. An example of a self-report measure that might be useful but less preferred is a self-assessment of knowledge (e.g., How strong on a 1-5 scale is your knowledge of arterial blood gas interpretation?) The use of it for knowledge can be okay as long as everyone understands that it is perceived level of knowledge.
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“What’s important is not where an organization begins its patient safety journey, but instead the degree to which it exhibits a relentless commitment to improvement.” – TJC, 2016, p.68