Essentials Of Evidence Based Practice-Nursing

Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

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To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.

· Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest for the Assignment.

· Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question.

· Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 3: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

· Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.

· Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.

· Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

· Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.

· Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research.

Be specific and provide examples.

ESSENTIALS OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Infection Control

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EBP

Evidence-based practice is an important function in improvement of critical care in the nursing practice, and it also promotes the quality care of patients.

Implementing EBH into an organization’s culture enhances patient outcomes and provides healthcare satisfaction. EBP not only improves healthcare satisfaction but also helps an organization gain high reliability from its consumers.

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Also, EBP reduces costs as well as the risk of harm, considering that EBP reduces unnecessary tests and even procedures.

Evidence-Based Practice can be described as a problem-solving approach that works towards delivering a healthcare culture that practices the best available clinician practice, evidence as well as patient’s preferences and values (Sehulster & Chinn, 2013).

Infection Control

Controlling infections is one of the major problems faced by public healthcare centers, and it has a major impact on mortality, morbidity as well as the quality of life.

Nurses play a vital role in preventing illnesses before they occur through adhering to EBP infection control practices.

Infection Control

Their roles include keeping the healthcare environment disco-terminated or rather clean, having protective clothing, practicing the right-hand washing procedures as well as using barrier precautions.

Infections within a hospital setting can be transmitted using various channels, including dirty hands and medical devices.

Infection Control

A healthcare facility should commit fully to staff education and analyze the methods of delivery.

Also, a hospital should make sure that all the healthcare workers, especially those that have direct contact with the patient, have continuous training about the importance of hand hygiene (Sehulster & Chinn, 2013).

Infection Control

The staff methods should also be educated on how hand hygiene should be done, the right techniques, for instance, using alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Medical devices such as glucose monitors and thermometers and any other device that comes directly in contact with a patient should be disinfected before being used by another patient.

Infection Control

With the above prevention strategies, it is possible to control and prevent infection in a hospital.

Despite that, healthcare givers are always busy with the many responsibilities they have inline; time taken to control infection is worth all the efforts.

Hospital-acquired infection is the last thing a patient wants when reporting to a healthcare center for treatment (Ward, 2016).

Conclusion

Controlling and preventing infections requires a coordination of all infection controls as well as prevention program functions.

Infection control in hospitals requires the staff members to observe hygiene and following precautions, and that will reduce the risks of infections in a hospital effectively.

Also, environmental factors and architectural outlines should be emphasized.

References

Ward, D. (2016). Implementing evidence-based practice in infection control. British journal of nursing, 9 5, 267-71.

Sehulster, L.M., & Chinn, R.Y. (2013). Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities. Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). MMWR. Recommendations and reports: Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports, 52 RR-10, 1-42.

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