Nr 451 Assignment Week 6 Ebp Change Process Form

Star Point 1: Discovery (Identify topic and practice issue) Identify the topic and the nursing practice issue related to this topic. (This MUST involve a nursing practice issue.) Surgical infections are one of the critical issues in healthcare facilities. The infection has various adverse effects that include the infection of new illnesses, the deterioration of the existing illness and even death. The topic of evaluation is the rising incidences of surgical infections in healthcare facilities to establish the possible intervention measures. Briefly describe your rationale for your topic selection. Include the scope of the issue/problem. Surgical infections have led to the reduction in patient safety thereby making hospitals inefficient in discharging their role of providing efficient and effective patient care. The problem, which is unavoidable on the patient’s side, has led to the development of various complications after surgery as well as death of millions of patients across the world. It is therefore imperative to define the problem and its causes, which would help develop possible intervention measures to reduce or eliminate incidences of surgical infections. Star Point 2: Summary (Evidence to support need for a change) Describe the practice problem in your own words and formulate your PICOT question. The high rate of surgical infections caused by errors and negligence continues the practice problem. The infections range from failure to use Chlorhexidine as outlined in pre-operative procedures, lack of due care and professionalism, common errors and negligence by health care provides. Despite the wide-ranging effects of surgical infections, there is lacks sufficient intervention measures to avert the situation. List the systematic review chosen from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from the Chamberlain library. Type the complete APA reference for the systematic review selected.