After analyzing our group finding and reflecting on our topic within different theories of articles, I personally feel as though my assumptions about our topic did not change. Our topic of “Elderly patient who suffers from COPD, does deep breathing exercises in conjunction with current standards of pharmacological treatment significantly improve quality of life, as compared to current pharmacological treatment without deep breathing exercises”, stayed consistent throughout our research into the articles we chose. I think as a PICOT question we narrowed down the specific areas of deep breathing exercises and really focused in on specific effective exercises. As well as focusing in on the aspect of treatment associated with it. 

The findings within our articles I feel helped us as a group discover the many different aspects of breathing techniques a patient with COPD can have access to. Moving forward I think the various studies are to be brought forward and studied more thoroughly. I could see myself possibly using them in my future nursing. COPD is a complex diagnosis that causes a blockage of airflow and multiple breathing-related issues so any areas that can improve an individual’s ability to breathe easier should be taken into consideration. 

I feel as a team we came to the same conclusions that our findings of these articles were conducive for our PICOT question and to further develop our Influence Paper. On the other hand, I do feel although we have solid articles, we limited ourselves with specific breathing exercises that enhance a patient’s breathing. Instead of finding articles that dove into the pharmacological treatments. This was due to the aspects of medications, we felt brought us down a deeper rabbit hole, rather than focusing on the actual concept of COPD and its treatments. Overall, I think our team process has been thorough and to the best of our ability. We are all trying to manage our time together and stay on top of each assignments, working weekly together to make progress.