Evidence-Based Research on Diabetes Insipidus Diagnosis (Essay Sample)

Evidence-Based Research on Diabetes Insipidus Diagnosis Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name/no. Instructor Date Evidence-Based Research on Diabetes Insipidus Diagnosis Diabetes Insipidus (DI) or Central Diabetes Insipidus (CDI) is a disorder which is less prevalent. The significant characteristic when diagnosing someone with DI is the excessive production of urine that is less concentrated (polyuria). This is a cause for alarm because the production is abnormal as its shows hypothalamoneurohypophysical dysfunction. The new nurse might have had challenges in identifying diabetes insipidus in the patient because polyuria may be characteristic in two more disease processes. These two additional abnormalities include excessive thirst appreciation or (PP) primary polydipsia, and renal resistance in response to Arginine Vasopressin’s (AVP) antidiuretic effect. Therefore, this similarity in characteristics with the two disorders needs to be taken into consideration to present correct diagnosis in order to limiting fatal effects or even death on the concerned patient when administering treatment. It is recommended not to mix up diagnosis for Primary Polydipsia with Central Diabetes Insipidus (CDI), and Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus (NDI) in particular because it may cause a lot of harm to patients who consume alcohol heavily. Therefore, it is necessary for continuous evidence-based research to be conducted by practicing nurses and professional ones in order to limit the amount of fatalities that may occur due to negligence so that health care systems and nursing practices influence positive change in the health industry (Garrahy et al., 2018). Criteria for Determining Credibility of Resources to be used Scholarly sources used need to consider the CRAAP test criteria in order to be credible for use as evidence for research. Lewis (2018), states that the CRAAP test is a common criterion used to direct student researchers on the reliability of sources they locate for their research by the academic librarians. CRAAP test stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose. This means that when assessing the credibility of a source, a researching nurse should consider whether the source is current, meaning that its year of publication should not exceed five years. This may be because information keeps getting updated as new information is continuously being developed, which makes previous information given on the same to become outdated and therefore not reliable. (Information should be timely). Also, the links provided should be working in order for information to be considered current and therefore credible. Another criterion to look at is Relevance, whereby the information source one uses should meet the needs of the research one is carrying out. The source should relate to the topic of research, for instance, for the Diabetes Insipidus diagnosis, one should choose sources that talk about DI. The next criterion is the Authority. This means that the resource used should come from a reliable source. For instance, a journal article used should give the author(s) names, qualifications and affiliations because there is a lot of fake and unreliable information sources to look out for that have not been scholarly reviewed; which when used would not provide credible evidence for research. Accuracy refers to whether the information used is correct, reliable or one that can be trusted. Evidence-based research requires information that is backed up by facts or figures which has also been reviewed by several other researchers. And lastly, Purpose means that the information should reveal why it exists. Information presented by a source needs to show whether its intention was to entertain or educate among others while also revealing whether information given are facts or opinions, and reveal any bias according to the author(s) point of argument. Therefore, when the nurse successfully ticks off the five criteria in the CRAAP test as present in the sources chosen for research, then the information used would be considered credible and can be used (Benedictine University, 2020; Lewis,2018). Analyzing the Sources to be used for Diagnosis of Diabetes Insipidus For the diagnosis of Diabetes Insipidus, I chose to incorporate sources such as the European Journal of Endocrinology whereby Daniel Bichet published an article, “GENETICS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY Pathopshychology, diagnosis and treatment of familial nephrogenic diabetes insipidus,” in 2020. The second source which was used for my diagnosis was The Lancet. In this journal, Winzeler et al., in 2019 published an article whose title was “Arginine-stimulated copeptin measurements in the differential diagnosis of diabetes insipidus: a prospective diagnostic study.” The third source would be the Clinical endocrinology which had several journal articles from different researchers. The first article in the journal is “Diagnosis and management of central diabetes insipidus in adults,” by Gaharry et al., in 2019. The second article is “Copeptin and its role in the diagnosis of diabetes insipidus and the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis,” by Refardt et al., published in 2019 too, among others. The fourth journal used was the Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, whereby Refardt published an article in 2020 named, “Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of diabetes insipidus: update.” Nature Reviews Disease Primers journal also had an article on the diagnosis named, “Diabetes Insipidus,” by Christ-Crain et al., published in 2019. There are several other sources to be looked into as the scope Diabetes Insipidus is wide and the ones mentioned are just the main ones according to the symptoms presented by the new nurse. All sources I used are credible because they pass the CRAAP test. When looking at currency, all sources chosen were between 2019 and 2020, therefore showing timeliness. The URL links given are all working, also stating that it passes the currency criterion. The sources all talk about Diabetes Insipidus hence also pass the Relevance criterion because they do not go out of topic. Authority is shown by all authors of the articles who are researchers in the medical field hence, the sources are credible and relevant. In terms of Accuracy, all sources present information that is backed up by facts and compares the various symptoms hence one is able to come to a conclusion on which Diabetes Insipidus var...