I have recently been on 3rd week placement in a long-term care with a small dementia unit. This experience taught me that how music as a contemporary and alternative form of treatment on patients with dementia helps to ease the symptoms of depression and agitation. Research shows that music therapy promotes mind and body stimulations. It increases positive emotional response, and eventually enhances social engagement for patients with dementia (Raglio, Attardo, Gontero, Rollino, Groppo & Granieri, 2015, p.70).
Initially, it was my preceptor who started behavioral interventions on a resident with dementia and she instructed me to continue with the plan of care and explore nursing interventions to ease the agitation with this resident. According …show more content…
As mentioned by Lo-BiondoWood and Haber (2013) quantitative research is applied research and this article is designed to solve clinical problem which is “Behavioral problems in dementia” (Wall & Duffy, 2010, p. 108) rather than to acquire knowledge for knowledge’s sake and the goal is to improve the patients’ health care condition (p. 199). The elements, such as the introduction, literature review, research question, sampling, research design, and conclusion (LoBiondoWood & Haber, 2013, p. 199) are very clear in the article. The hypothesis was not clear but the research question flows into the sample and is appropriately managed by the research design. The research question is outlined in the very first line that ‘explore how music therapy influences the behavior of older people with dementia” (Wall and Duffy , 2010, p. 108). However, the discussion of the conceptual and theoretical framework is not mentioned in the article. Quantitative data was presented initially and it followed by qualitative data in the article.
Authors: According to framework, the authors possess appropriate academic and professional qualification and experience; they both are nurses. The abstract describes well the aim of literature review as well method used. It does give results and recommendation. (Wall and Duffy , 2010, p. …show more content…
As mentioned in Cherry and Jacob’s contemporary nursing “mind body interventions” work well dealing with stress, anxiety and behavior (p. 205).
Conceptually, I noticed even though we have personal ipods for most of the resident, most of the staff remain focused on antipsychotic drugs, for dementia residents with behavior. Another noticeable concern was even though most of the nursing staff knew that Mr’s K was born and brought-up in India they she still didn’t have any Indian tunes on her personal music. Consequently, I contacted our social worker to update Mr’s K.s list by contacting her family to find out what kind of music she liked.
In conclusion, the authors believe that music is a supportive in addition to the other interventions to manage behavioral symptoms. However, to implement the right music to at the right time makes huge difference to cater the need of people with dementia. This specific consideration needs to be consider in some future
Initially, it was my preceptor who started behavioral interventions on a resident with dementia and she instructed me to continue with the plan of care and explore nursing interventions to ease the agitation with this resident. According …show more content…
As mentioned by Lo-BiondoWood and Haber (2013) quantitative research is applied research and this article is designed to solve clinical problem which is “Behavioral problems in dementia” (Wall & Duffy, 2010, p. 108) rather than to acquire knowledge for knowledge’s sake and the goal is to improve the patients’ health care condition (p. 199). The elements, such as the introduction, literature review, research question, sampling, research design, and conclusion (LoBiondoWood & Haber, 2013, p. 199) are very clear in the article. The hypothesis was not clear but the research question flows into the sample and is appropriately managed by the research design. The research question is outlined in the very first line that ‘explore how music therapy influences the behavior of older people with dementia” (Wall and Duffy , 2010, p. 108). However, the discussion of the conceptual and theoretical framework is not mentioned in the article. Quantitative data was presented initially and it followed by qualitative data in the article.
Authors: According to framework, the authors possess appropriate academic and professional qualification and experience; they both are nurses. The abstract describes well the aim of literature review as well method used. It does give results and recommendation. (Wall and Duffy , 2010, p. …show more content…
As mentioned in Cherry and Jacob’s contemporary nursing “mind body interventions” work well dealing with stress, anxiety and behavior (p. 205).
Conceptually, I noticed even though we have personal ipods for most of the resident, most of the staff remain focused on antipsychotic drugs, for dementia residents with behavior. Another noticeable concern was even though most of the nursing staff knew that Mr’s K was born and brought-up in India they she still didn’t have any Indian tunes on her personal music. Consequently, I contacted our social worker to update Mr’s K.s list by contacting her family to find out what kind of music she liked.
In conclusion, the authors believe that music is a supportive in addition to the other interventions to manage behavioral symptoms. However, to implement the right music to at the right time makes huge difference to cater the need of people with dementia. This specific consideration needs to be consider in some future