Health Power for Minorities, 2015)
Health Power for Minorities, 2015)
One technological implementation process that I found to be useful for my capstone project is the PPD ACT app for your cellphone. This app is designed to help “doctors better understand the underlying biology and genetic risks of postpartum depression in order to better serve affected women” (Health Power for Minorities, 2015). The app has 2 integral parts:
Part 1: The app asks the user questions about their experiences with childbirth, mood, and anxiety symptoms after the birth. The responses to these questions will allow the app to point the users in the right direction to doctors in the area, and who would be most effective for treatment.
Part 2: The second part is the app will have a DNA kit mailed to the individual. The individual will then get a collection of their saliva and have it mailed back to the company. This saliva will then be analyzed and show researchers is there is any difference in women with postpartum versus non-postpartum, and develop treatments and more effective care. (Pact for the Cure, 2017).
This technology could be useful to my capstone project because If I could see the results of the DNA samples, it could provide me with more effective ways to care for postpartum women. It could show me if breastfeeding or medications help the best with postpartum depression decrease. I will be able to provide my patients with the most effective treatment and possibly stop the symptoms in future cases. This research could help stop postpartum depression entirely and give the health care professionals a heads up advantage.
Comment 4
In this modern and fast evolving era where technological advances are appearing and changing at a glance, it is not possible to progress without the implementation of the right technologies. For prevention of occurrence of urinary tract infection and to fight for its cure, the use of technology is crucial. Here, one should incorporate technologically advanced solutions to achieve project objectives. The technology implemented should be easy to use and understandable for all level of users including the nurses and the doctors. It should be available for access easily without any reliability (Parry, 2013). For measurement of this, symptoms can be mentioned on an app which can deduce to the patient if they have urinary tract infection or not. In this way, lots of the caregivers can predict and preliminary resolve problems and can accomplish EBP goal.
Another application would be to use more sensitive methods of detecting bacteria causing UTI (E. coli or Klebsiella) and crucial for UTI indicators, methods like an Accucheck machine. The writer has already seen the type of machine for PTT, and PT/INR used even 10 years ago. The complication with the UTI detection is that it uses microbiological approach for bacteria detection and requires time to grow them. Methods of molecular biology, which are also used in forensics, are useful for the application. The methods can potentially detect a single molecule of DNA in the solution, thus speeding up detection of UTI and fast streaming the process of the treatment. In case a UTI is suspected, a provider starts antibiotics immediately. Therefore, UTI is already strongly suspected even after urinalysis and C&S results are used primarily to confirm the diagnosis and which antibiotic to use.
