NR451 Assignment Week 6 EBP Change Process FORM 9 ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation

NR451 Assignment Week 6 EBP Change Process FORM 9 ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation.ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation Follow Nurse Daniel as your process mentor in the weekly Illustration section of the lesson. Please do not use any of the Nurse Daniel information for your own topic, nursing intervention, or change project. Nurse Daniel serves as an example only to illustrate the change process. Name: _Anita Lorinsky 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.) Fall prevention in the emergency department is an issue that I have chose to work on. Different ways for nursing to predict a patient that is a potential fall risk and ways to prevent a fall once the risk has been identified. Briefly describe your rationale for your topic selection. Include the scope of the issue/problem. Mechanical falls in the emergency department can be minor, not requiring hospitalization, no injury or skin tears that can be repaired, or major, that require hospitalization such a fractured hip of a brain bleed. There is also the occasion that the fall may be bad enough that it could result in death immediately or while hospitalized. 1Star Point 2: Summary (Evidence to support need for a change) Describe the practice problem in your own words and formulate your PICOT question. P: I will be looking at patients that enter the emergency room to identify those that are a fall risk with a fall risk assessment that is appropriate for an emergency room. The falls that will be focused on will be mechanical falls not intentional falls such as acting out. I: Fall risk scales will be developed, discovered that are appropriate for emergency departments to identify those that may be a fall risk from the elderly to the intoxicated patients. Ways to identify for all staff by signage or devices to aid in fall prevention. C: The number of fall risk patients that were identified with current scoring and identification to the number of falls with new scoring techniques that prevented falls. O: There would be a decrease in the number of mechanical falls in the emergency. Also be able to identify patients that may be intentional or behavioral falls.