Main Post
It should be noted that the main purpose of research lies in directing and guiding nurses while treating the patients. To enlarge on this, nurses should be open to changes while identifying a particular problem and looking for viable solutions. Being a Director for an Ambulatory Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center, I am in charge of controlling surgeons performing facelift operations. So far, they carried out operations without using drains and ice compress because, according to some surgeons, recent research has shown that these methods constrict significantly blood vessels leading to necrotic skills. Nevertheless, due to the latest research, we have found that Jackson Pratt drains and ice compress contribute greatly to healing and faster recovery. In particular, Jackson Pratt’s drains aimed at draining extra fluid from the traumatized issue (Choucair and Hamra, 2009, p. 250). In the same way, Honrado (2006) has provided evidence that a 24-hour ice compress facilitates the recovery period as well. With regard to these researchers, nurses can now considerably improve practice and provide changes to the sphere of Plastic Surgery.
Main Discussion
The above case proves that through evidence-based practice introduction constitutes a serious challenge to nurses, it still has to take place in healthcare. More importantly, nurses should always be ready to look at issues, consider them through the prism of existing research, and provide reasonable solutions to the identified problems (Tagney, & Haines, 2009). Hence, appropriate structures and frameworks, organizational support, the introduction of evidence-based practice can make it much easier for nurses to face changes and implement them in nursing practice. On whole, evidence-based practice means that nurses should carry out interventions with particular reference to existing researches.
With the introduction of evidence-based practice, our nursing specialty has experienced a bulk of significant improvements. Dramatic changes have been implemented while conducting research on preventive techniques applied in a post-operative period of facial reconstruction. The researches on facelift drains and ice compressions are largely based on empirical research and observation. At the same time, the importance of intuitive knowledge is not of the least importance either because it serves as a ground for building further theoretical concepts and ideas.
The case with ice compression and drain mechanism leads to an assumption that the implementation of existing nursing theories and models is beneficial for the health care system in general (Parker and Smith, 2010). Affiliation to middle-range theories has presented much wider opportunities for coping with facelift complications. Specifically, careful consideration of human anatomy as well as research dedicated to the study of facial surgery has introduced much more favorable methods of post-operational intervention. Hence, the presentation of conventional procedures of facelifting has provided a clearer picture of the main reason for emerging complications as well as a more contrastive view on the benefits of the recently introduced changes. The result of the intervention has been positive because the post-operational period has considerably shortened.
The introduced evidence has turned out to be quite effective because it makes the process of healing less painful and more efficient. In this respect, the selected research has played a pivotal role in transforming theoretical knowledge into practice and in developing new approaches to performing rhitedectomy. What is more important is that it has also provided us with valuable information concerning which interventions will be most cost-efficient as well as what technological devices should be introduced to foster the intervention.
References
Choucair, R. J., and Hamra, S. T. (2009). Nuances of the Composite Face-Lift Technique. Seminar on Plastic Surgery. 23(4), pp. 247-256.
Honrado, C. and Pastorek, N. (2006). Preventing Complications in Facial Plastic Surgery. Current Opinion on Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. 14(4), pp. 265-269.
Parker, M., & Smith, M. (2010). Nursing theories & nursing practice (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
Tagney, J., & Haines, C. (2009). Using evidence-based practice to address gaps in nursing knowledge. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 18(8), 484–489. Web.