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Reply week 7 DB4 research
1-alberto alfonso
Whether you are talking about intrapersonal problems or patient care problems, no matter the setting, there will always be something that can be improved. In my facility, I am determined to address the problem that is heavily influencing hospitals: hospital-acquired diseases. This is a serious issue, since a large percentage of patients (over 3%) acquire a hospital-acquired disease at some point during their stay at a given healthcare facility. This can be caused by a variety of reasons, but the most common of which is the absence of proper sterility. By having tools, supplies, and healthcare providers with little or incorrect sterilization techniques, then there is an indeterminate amount of diseases that a patient with a likely already compromised immune system. Furthermore, these hospital-acquired diseases can also affect the healthcare professionals transmitting them, since the providers themselves are the vector for the disease. The project would then consist of a new set of policies that would require more intense analysis of sterilization techniques, including actions before sterilization, during sterilization, and after sterilization (transportation, use, etc.).
By localizing the area, or areas, in which sterilization protocol fails, we will be able to successfully reduce the amount of hospital-acquired diseases an individual patient will experience. Maximum minimization of these diseases is essential to provide a healthcare environment where patient care flourishes, but is also efficient in its usage of funds and time spent by professionals. For example, if a patient receives strep from a medical professional, that patient will require further care; also, the provider will possibly also suffer from the transmitted disease, meaning that person may not be able to practice and therefore put a dent in the hospital’s means. In order to prevent this, implementation of the aforementioned guidelines must take place, since these will allow for a much more strict view of the sterilization techniques. However, a complete rehaul of the methods of sterilization will require time, funds, and strong interprofessional communication to make sure there are no lapses at any point the renewed process. Departmental and funding approving is required, but I believe that this problem is essential enough to solve that it will result in quick approval.
2-sandra jaime
In hospital settings, there exists a plethora of different healthcare that can stem from a large pool of possibilities; for example, anything from hospital-acquired diseases to simple patient comfort are clinical problems that can be addressed either through peer-to-peer collaboration or through patient contact and fulfilling the mastery-prepared nurse responsibility of being the patient’s primary care advocate. Many of the problems in the healthcare field, however, stem from a primary source: a lack of communication. This is the primary problem within any healthcare setting; failure to communicate leads to innate problems within the field. Failure to communicate leads to loss-of-information between end-of-round rotations and between shifts, which can then lead to patient quality reduction and even serious health issues depending the situation. Furthermore, lack of communication can also affect healthcare policy, something master’s-prepared nurses must be prepared to affect in a positive direction and ensure reflects the patient’s best interest in terms of quality healthcare.
All in all, with how hectic a healthcare environment can be (e.g., hospitals), it is inevitable that at some point, there will be a break in the chain of communication. That is why this project is so important: by formulating and creating rigid guidelines that need to be followed, teams will be able to confirm that they are following the necessary steps to ensure that information is being transferred in an effective, efficient manner. This will minimize the amount of accidental injuries and death among patients, and a promotion of the ability to integrate and collaborate between other healthcare professionals on care and healthcare policies. This project will also succeed in allowing multicultural, diverse teams of medical professionals to be understanding of one another. The ability to collaborate within a diverse team also allows nurses and other medical professionals to have the ability to assist and empathize with those same, diverse patients. All-in-all, while there exists an overabundance of problems within any healthcare environment, many of them stem from lack of communication. A revitalized ability to communicate with one another will help maximize patient care quality and also create an understanding, collaborative work environment without the fear of hurting a patient through miscommunication.
3-yaima rosquete
The research question I would like to explore related to my project is: Will the incidences of Hospital Acquired Infections decrease if medical staff do not wear jewelry below the wrist if they are directly involved in patient care versus staff being able to wear jewelry below the wrist? P- Patients who have developed a Hospital Acquired Infection. I: Nursing staff will not wear jewelry below the wrist if they are directly involved w/ hands on patient care. C: Nursing staff who are allowed to wear jewelry below the wrist. O: Improve patient care by decreasing patient exposure and contraction of infections. I chose this proposal question because I see nurses everyday wear jewelry even though we are taught not to in nursing school. I wear wedding rings and my grandmothers wedding rings on each hand plus a watch. I am interested to learn if there really is an increase in HAI if nursing staff wears jewelry or not.This is so important to clinical practice because HAI is a very serious topic for hospitals and JCAHO, and there are a lot of people who are looking for ways to decrease the incidences of HAI.
According to Dearholt & Dang (2012), the use of research and EBP produces better patient outcomes in health-care organizations because patient-care decisions are conscientiously based on the best scientific evidence. With jewelry we can spread the germs from one patient to another and this is very unhealthy as well. As nurses we need to be aware and follow policies of what we can wear to work and also as instructor Kauffman mentioned that we can take the germs home to our family as well.
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