Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

The Assignment: (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 5: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

Create an 8- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Briefly describe your healthcare organization, including its culture and readiness for change. (You may opt to keep various elements of this anonymous, such as your company name.)
• Describe the current problem or opportunity for change. Include in this description the circumstances surrounding the need for change, the scope of the issue, the stakeholders involved, and the risks associated with change implementation in general.
• Propose an evidence-based idea for a change in practice using an EBP approach to decision making. Note that you may find further research needs to be conducted if sufficient evidence is not discovered.
• Describe your plan for knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination, and organizational adoption and implementation.
• Describe the measurable outcomes you hope to achieve with the implementation of this evidence-based change.
• Be sure to provide APA citations of the supporting evidence-based peer reviewed articles you selected to support your thinking.
• Add a lessons learned section that includes the following:
  • A summary of the critical appraisal of the peer-reviewed articles you previously submitted
  • An explanation about what you learned from completing the evaluation table (1 slide)
  • An explanation about what you learned from completing the levels of evidence table (1 slide)
  • An explanation about what you learned from completing the outcomes synthesis table (1 slide)

Bernard, M. S., Hunter, K. F., & Moore, K. N. (2012). A review of strategies to decrease the duration of indwelling urethral catheters and potentially reduce the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Urologic nursing, 32(1).

Fink, R., Gilmartin, H., Richard, A., Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., & Wald, H. (2012). Indwelling urinary catheter management and catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention practices in Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders hospitals. American journal of infection control, 40(8), 715-720.

Janzen, J., Buurman, B. M., Spanjaard, L., de Reijke, T. M., Goossens, A., & Geerlings, S. E. (2013). Reduction of unnecessary use of indwelling urinary catheters. BMJ Qual Saf, 22(12), 984-988.

Oman, K. S., Makic, M. B. F., Fink, R., Schraeder, N., Hulett, T., Keech, T., & Wald, H. (2012). Nurse-directed interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections. American journal of infection control, 40(6), 548-553.

•Fassinger, R., & Morrow, S. L. (2013). Toward best practices in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research: A social justice perspective. Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 5(2), 69-83.

•Vaghefi, I., Lapointe, L., & Shahbaznezhad, H. (2018). A multilevel process view of organizational knowledge transfer: enablers versus barriers. Journal of Management Analytics, 5(1), 1-17.

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Over the years we have grown to a renown institution known for better health care. Even so, we still have various problems that we encounter as an institution concerning our patients. Hospital based infections have been a major cause of problems in mist health centers which lead to prolonged stays at the hospitals by the patients, increased cost among others.  One of the major problems that we are experiencing now is the Catheter associated urinary tract infections. Every year in the country around 25% of the patients in health care organizations are catheterized and among them 10% end up with CAUTIs (Oman, K. S.et.al, 2012). Retained Nurses can play a major role in the reduction and prevention of the infections.  CAUTIs affects mostly the elderly and the patients using catheters. At time the infections cause complications and even leads to death.  The CAUTIs are at a rise in hospitals and we have to work towards it reduction to reduce the instances of infections. According to Fink, R., Gilmartin, H., Richard, A., Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., & Wald, H. (2012), in the united States about 34% of health care associated infections are CAUTIs hence the need to look into the matter……………

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