Flip Flopping Ideas!

Okay, so after meeting with my adviser today I am not going to look at the medication patterns. She said it's already been done and not really a route I should go in.

So staying with the issue of domestic violence. I am going to look at the resident's access to health care to find out if they could benefit from a nursing intervention such as, a telenursing service. The access to healthcare questions would include some of the health consequences of DV, what types of doctors do they go to or if they go to any at all. Do they have insurance. I want to ask about their level of comfort with these healthcare practitioners. Do they do preventative care such as mammograms  colonoscopies, or pap smears? What were their healthcare practices before they were in the shelter vs. now. 

So I was talking to Dr. Cook about telenursing the week before last. That's the route I am going to go in. So for those of you who don't know what telenursing is "Telenursing is the use of “technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice”⁵ (p.558). Although the use of technology changes the delivery medium of nursing care and may necessitate competencies related to its use to deliver nursing care, the nursing process and scope of practice does not differ with telenursing. Nurses engaged in telenursing practice continue to assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate the outcomes of nursing care, but they do so using technologies such as the Internet, computers, telephones, digital assessment tools, and telemonitoring equipment" 
(source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2687/)

I will still survey the residents (With shelter approval). I am emailing the director today to see if it is something I can do. If not Dr. Hetzel may have a contact in a shelter in MA for me to possibly work with. 

I need to get my survey completed before May 1st to send it into the review board for the college for their last meeting of the year on May 10th. 

thoughts?