dissertation help

lilysgarden

Maybe look at the medical professions treatment of patients who have self harmed/attempted suicide? As a social work student and having done alot of work with people who self harm and attempt suicide, some of the stories I've heard of their treatment by medical staff at all levels is absolutely disgraceful! As a taster, the most common complaint has been that while (for example) there's a two hour estimated waiting time for treatment in a and e, these patients have been pushed to the back of the queue, some have reporte waiting well over 24 hours for treatment, then being spoken to as though they were something unpleasant stuck the the medical staff's shoe.

As for your dissertation tutor, if you feel unhappy in any way, then contact the uni and ask for another! You're perfectly within your rights to do so, and the dissertation tutor is supposed to be accessible for assistance with things like this. If they are on holiday for a long time, then they should ensure you have another point of contact until their return!

sturll

One with millions of resources available would be something along the lines of:

Should we have the right to take our own life.

busiscoming2

How about research on whether taking strong medication affects behaviour when the meds stop? Eg: oxycontin, morphine, pregablin, gabbapentin (the last two if you are not an epilectic) etc.

pandora205

If you are interested in communication with deaf patients why not look at their perceptions of nursing/medical care? You could search the literature and see if anyone else has done something (I'm sure they have) then do some sort of survey. I'm sure that RNID will be able to point you in the right direction too.

You may be able to offer some real insights into how medical professionals can improve their bedside manner.

SuziQ

As a trained nurse myself (but I trained the old way in hospital) I would love someone to do research in nourishment for those in hospital-ie the pittance spent on the meals,the poor quality of meals,the fact the arrive to the patient cold and the fact that many patients starve because they cannot feed themselves and the nurse is too busy,or else no one thinks to give them their teeth!Lack of nourishment then effects morale,healing and recovery.
When I did my middy trainng I did a similar thing-I was disgusted to find out that the money allocated to each mum in hospital had to have infant formula factored in as well,and when I investigated the meals there simply wasn't enough calories to sustain either a pregnant woman or a breast feeding mum!
Can you tell I get inflamed about this!:rotfl:

McKneff

errata, please, this is not a critisism cos you made me smile.#
The term is dementia patients not demented patients. The pictures this brougt up in my head, sorry couldnt help but smile

lynzpower

Having done a dissertation some years ago, and not done quite as well on it as I should have, I would recommend making your subject area as narrow as possible, and ensuring that your methodology can support the question you weer asking ( mine couldnt) Mine was SO huge, but I only realised part way through, and could not restrict ( To what extent is global population policy based on the writings of JT Mathus- word to anyone considering this- dont bother)

the reason why many nursing people will do "dressings" is becauseit can be quite a compact topic- with a set number of variants.

I dont know a huge amount about nursing, but did work in a hosital for 5 years in social work. If i were in your shoes I would lok at something narrow enough like feeding of patients, roles and responsibilities in food in the rehabilitation process. Where the food chain is for inpatients, using reports on nutritional content of mass produced foods that our patients "enjoy" , but focusing more on staff's ability to "getting the food in the patient", on say a geriatric ward or for those inpatients with enduring mental health illnesses and the use of food as a therapeutic and healing resource. And why, as we all know nursing staff will allow elderly patients to leave food, personal choices to refuse, and offering alternatives and so forth.

Hell actually thats way too big!

bestpud

lilysgarden wrote: »

Maybe look at the medical professions treatment of patients who have self harmed/attempted suicide? As a social work student and having done alot of work with people who self harm and attempt suicide, some of the stories I've heard of their treatment by medical staff at all levels is absolutely disgraceful! As a taster, the most common complaint has been that while (for example) there's a two hour estimated waiting time for treatment in a and e, these patients have been pushed to the back of the queue, some have reporte waiting well over 24 hours for treatment, then being spoken to as though they were something unpleasant stuck the the medical staff's shoe.

As for your dissertation tutor, if you feel unhappy in any way, then contact the uni and ask for another! You're perfectly within your rights to do so, and the dissertation tutor is supposed to be accessible for assistance with things like this. If they are on holiday for a long time, then they should ensure you have another point of contact until their return!

I agree with both parts!

As a former self harmer, I can say there is a severe lack of training and ignorance in casualty departments when it comes to SH. It was a good few years ago but I still cringe at some of the treatment I received. I do think it comes down to lack of adequate training as even those who seem to 'care' looked like they were floundering tbh. It really seemed as though they didn't know what the hell to do or say! I still feel quite angry about it, and of course, sorry for those having to cope with this now.

And yes, you should have agreed a topic and had more contact before now! You simply should not be left to start without both agreeing a topic and discussing things like ethics! Are they actually expecting you to start it before you have agreed a topic? If so then I'd be asking for a different tutor too.

Good luck with it.

susan1

SuziQ wrote: »

As a trained nurse myself (but I trained the old way in hospital) I would love someone to do research in nourishment for those in hospital-ie the pittance spent on the meals,the poor quality of meals,the fact the arrive to the patient cold and the fact that many patients starve because they cannot feed themselves and the nurse is too busy,or else no one thinks to give them their teeth!Lack of nourishment then effects morale,healing and recovery.
When I did my middy trainng I did a similar thing-I was disgusted to find out that the money allocated to each mum in hospital had to have infant formula factored in as well,and when I investigated the meals there simply wasn't enough calories to sustain either a pregnant woman or a breast feeding mum!
Can you tell I get inflamed about this!:rotfl:

good job i read through all the threads, you beat me too it - a very ancient S.R.N. who heartily agrees!

studentgirl_2

I love the ideas on nutrition and the role that nurses have with this. It is a major issue the house keepers dish it our and collect it in. as part of the nursong team we never know what the patient had managed to eat, if any at all. The smell from the food trolly also saddens me as it makes me wnat to vom. As student nurses today we are encouraged to practic holist nursing care, this should include meals but we are to busy to fed ourselves, let alone a patient. this is a real sad state. As we all know that food is essential to life. waffling now sorrt this is a big bug bare with me on the ward.

Thanks for so many intresing thoughts. Its really got me going ta.

Studentgirl xxxx