Is Seeing Believing?
Nurse observation is a privilege and a skill. It has been proven that the observer can influence an experiment with their own expectations. Do nurses expect the best for the people in their care? Do they bet on the worse if they feel that is what will likely happen. Is nurse observation objective?
The gold standard of research is the double blind study. This is a study in which neither the researcher or the participant knows what variable they are interacting with in the study.
Often times in pharmaceutical research, the proposed new medicine or treatment is tested against a placebo.
Curious that a placebo is the measure of effectiveness. In Allopathic Medicine, the placebo is merely accounted for by the power of belief. Science is proving otherwise.
Nurse observation and research can forge the leading edge on this and countless other topics, issues and occurrences. Nurses observe people in a myriad of situations. They witness a diversity of people and culture, beliefs, attitudes, philosophies and responses.
Nurse Observations
So what have you observed? Even if you cannot explain it, or understand it. Anything amazing, a trend or similarity, pattern, frequency or frustration. However curious, seemingly incomplete or perplexing submit them below.