Nursing research is relevant to the community, and it aims at finding more knowledge to advance the practice of nursing, shape the healthy policy, and to change the health in the whole country (America Association of Nursing, 2006). According to American Nurses Association (2006), the nursing research priorities at the advancement of quality and health care, and to significantly advance the critical importance of professional nursing practice especially in the research.
In my research am going to rely mostly on the online research publications because they are more updated that printed journals. My role specialization chosen in UTI in elderly and am going to refer to three articles to describe it and different facts concerning it with the motive of developing a proposal (Shah & Goundrey-Smith, 2013). Urinary tract infection is a common disease that affects the people. The reason I chose to study this problem is because there is little effort done by the nursing to control this issue. I think that my research can come up with a long-term solution for the problem.
The vulnerability of contraction this disease increases with increase in age. There are signs and symptoms associated with the disease which includes pain during urination, a condition called hematuria or simply blood in urine, and polyuria which means having excessive urine production. The diagnosis is made by dipstick or mid-stream urine testing. They are treated by an admission of course of antibiotics (Perry, 2011). The purpose why I was interested in this problem is because there is an increase in the prevalence of the cases with 20% of the women above 60 years contacting UTI each year. The probability increases to 20-50 years for women above 80 years (Nazarko, 2014). The research will try to find how antibiotics can be developed to be used as preventive measures.
References
America Asociation Of Nursing. (2006). Nursing Research. American Association of College Nursing.
Nazarko, L. (2014). Recurrent urinary tract infection in older women. Nurse Prescribing.
Perry, M. (2011). Treating symptomatic. Practice Nursing.
Shah, C., & Goundrey-Smith, S. (2013). Managing the symptoms of urinary tract infection in women. Journal of community nurse, 88-92.
