nurses exhibited enhanced awareness after intervention
Jenson et al. conducted a research in 2018 to determine how best to improve oral medication in hospitalized non-ventilated patients, to reduce the attributed death-rates due to ventilated pneumonia. Through a pre-post experimental study of non-ventilated patients and those without tracheostomies, the study compared oral care before and after intervention. The findings indicated an improvement in oral care from pre-intervention rates from the 5th to 9th weeks. Equally, nurses exhibited enhanced awareness after intervention.
The study conducted by Turk et al. in 2015 aimed to determine the beliefs of Nigerians in the United States and how their lifestyle may affect healthcare. Through photography methodology and observation of the focus group, the study was conducted on 13 Nigerians immigrants. Results of the research indicated that moderation is healthy, Nigerians have healthy ways of living, American habits of life are relatively unhealthy, and healthy behavior can be well-promoted in a cultural context.
The mortality rate for patients who had contacted ventilated acquired pneumonia had risen to a record of 10%. Part of the reason was stipulated by this research to be poor administration of oral medication by nurses to these categories of patients.
There is an increasing number of Nigerian immigrants in the United States, but the healthcare fraternity lack sufficient knowledge of their lifestyle with regard to health and Nutrition.
This study aimed to ascertain if educating the staff, creating a standardized protocol, and moving healthcare tools to patient’s bedsides could upgrade the regularity of oral care. This research sought to explore and establish the perceptions and practices of Nigerian immigrants with regard to healthy living and their level of indulgence in physical activities such as physical exercises.
Additionally, the research aimed to measure how effective African cultural beliefs of the Nigerian immigrants on their eating styles and physical activities. Further, the study attempted to determine healthcare providers’ role in promoting healthy eating and physical activities among this cohort of people, and finally to measure the efficiency of photovoice in data collection by using this cohort of people.
H0: Nurse education has no significant effect on oral care
H1: Nurse education significantly improves oral care
H0: No significant difference in the occurrence of oral care before and after intervention
H1: progressed rate of recurrence of oral care after intervention
H0: No significant variation in oral care with or without bedside tools
H1: Bedside tools enhance oral care.
The research questions included the following:
- What cultural beliefs of Nigerian immigrants affect their eating ways and physical activities?
- What is the role of health service providers in promoting a healthy lifestyle among the immigrants understudy?
- What is the efficacy level of using photovoice in data collection?
The study is significant as it locates effective ways to improve nursing practice and subsequently combat the high mortality rates due to ventilator-acquired pneumonia.
This article provides knowledge on health and nutrition practices of Nigerian immigrants, which acts as a guideline to nursing practice. Nurses can determine diagnosis and design approaches to health and nutrition complications of Nigerian immigrants, based on the findings and knowledge of the lifestyle and nutrition-related practices. This study is a quantitative study since it uses experimental study, where subjects are observed before and after the intervention (Watson, 2015).
Moreover, it employed a pre-post study design, which is a randomized control trial method, hence a quantitative study (Thompson & Upshur, 2017). This study is qualitative since it employs a photovoice methodology, which is an observational strategy that helps in communicating a community’s issues of concern to the researcher (Simmonds et al., 2015).
Additionally, the research employed Leininger’s four phases in data analysis, which is used in qualitative study designs (McFarland & Wehbe-Alamah, 2015).