Introduction Self-mutilation is a commonly misunderstood and stigmatized area not only in nursing, but also in society as a whole. Nurses are accustomed to providing care for clients who have been admitted to the hospital due to a physical illness that was not directly brought on by actions of the individual, so when interacting with a client who has intentionally injured themselves, nurses may face moral and ethical dilemmas in providing them with care. According the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery, the prevalence of self-injury worldwide among adolescents in 2014 was 17.2%, among young adults it was at 13.4%, and when looking at the prevalence of self-injury in adults it was at 5.5% (2014). Self-mutilation was defined
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There were a total of 8,139 results found using this criterion. This article was chosen because it offers a unique concept in the area of caring for the self-mutilating client; while many articles focus on client safety and on the nurse’s role of not allowing the client to harm him or herself, this article actually lists the benefits associated with supervised self-harm (Edwards & Hewitt, 2011). “At the Cutting Edge: Creative and Holistic Responses to Self-Injury” is an article that was found on the Andruss Library database using the search terms “self-mutilation” and “nursing response.” In order to narrow the results I set the criteria to include only “scholarly (peer reviewed) journals” and “academic journals” and set the year range for 2010-2016 to see if more recent data was available on this topic; there were a total of 7,434 search results. This article was chosen because it involves information and interventions that were used and found helpful by individuals who have actually struggled with self-mutilation (Inckle, 2010). The article titled “Assessment …show more content…
Grove, Gray, and Burns define best research evidence as, “a summary of the highest quality, current, empirical knowledge in a specific area of health care that has been developed from a synthesis of quality studies in that area” ( 2014). In order to make sure only credible sources were obtained for this paper, it was important to make sure that each of the sources provided information on the step-by-step process of how the research was done and the degree to which the research reflected the area of nursing care of the self-mutilating client (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2014). The views on which area should be the primary focus of caring for the self-mutilating client differ in relation to whether maintaining client safety should be held above discovering the underlying cause of the self-injuring behavior. In order to obtain sources that had the most recent information, differing ideas on caring for the self-mutilating client, and written by experts in the field of psychiatric-mental health nursing, specifiers like “scholarly (peer reviewed) journals” and “academic journals” and various year ranges were used in order to gather only the most credible sources. Determining the methodology of each article is crucial in deciding whether or not an article has the criteria necessary to be included in an evidence-based practice
There were a total of 8,139 results found using this criterion. This article was chosen because it offers a unique concept in the area of caring for the self-mutilating client; while many articles focus on client safety and on the nurse’s role of not allowing the client to harm him or herself, this article actually lists the benefits associated with supervised self-harm (Edwards & Hewitt, 2011). “At the Cutting Edge: Creative and Holistic Responses to Self-Injury” is an article that was found on the Andruss Library database using the search terms “self-mutilation” and “nursing response.” In order to narrow the results I set the criteria to include only “scholarly (peer reviewed) journals” and “academic journals” and set the year range for 2010-2016 to see if more recent data was available on this topic; there were a total of 7,434 search results. This article was chosen because it involves information and interventions that were used and found helpful by individuals who have actually struggled with self-mutilation (Inckle, 2010). The article titled “Assessment …show more content…
Grove, Gray, and Burns define best research evidence as, “a summary of the highest quality, current, empirical knowledge in a specific area of health care that has been developed from a synthesis of quality studies in that area” ( 2014). In order to make sure only credible sources were obtained for this paper, it was important to make sure that each of the sources provided information on the step-by-step process of how the research was done and the degree to which the research reflected the area of nursing care of the self-mutilating client (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2014). The views on which area should be the primary focus of caring for the self-mutilating client differ in relation to whether maintaining client safety should be held above discovering the underlying cause of the self-injuring behavior. In order to obtain sources that had the most recent information, differing ideas on caring for the self-mutilating client, and written by experts in the field of psychiatric-mental health nursing, specifiers like “scholarly (peer reviewed) journals” and “academic journals” and various year ranges were used in order to gather only the most credible sources. Determining the methodology of each article is crucial in deciding whether or not an article has the criteria necessary to be included in an evidence-based practice