Directions

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.

1. Please review the infographic as way to guide you in getting started with your assignment: Developing an Assignment with Integrity
2. View a short tutorial with tips for completing this assignment: Evidence-Based Practice Change Process Assignment Tutorial or by reading the transcript.
3. Download the EBP Change Process form during Week 1. The use of this specific form is REQUIRED 
4. Identify a clinical topic and related nursing practice issue you think needs to be changed.
5. Locate a systematic review on your topic from the CCN Library databases. Be sure this involves nursing actions.
6. Work through each step of the ACE Star Model as outlined on the assignment form (Star Points 1-5: Discovery, Summary, Translation, Implementation, and Evaluation). Respond to the instructions provided on the form.
7. Follow the activities and thinking of Nurse Daniel in Weeks 1-6 in the ‘Illustration’ part of each lesson. He will be working through a clinical topic and nursing practice issue to demonstrate a change (ACE Star Model and systematic review).
8. Work on a portion of the process each week, as the illustration unfolds.

Best Practices

• Please reach out to your instructor for feedback or assistance with your PICOT question as needed.
• Required and Additional Background Reading in Weeks 1 and 2 under Readings is available for more information on the ACE Star Model and the use of systematic reviews.
• Please see the grading criteria and rubrics on this page.
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Solution

Topic: patient safety

Nursing practice issue: hospital acquired infections

Briefly describe your rationale for your topic selection. Include the scope of the issue/problem.

In the United States, healthcare-associated infections are ranked as the most prevalent adverse event. Initially, the term healthcare associated infections was used to refer to infections acquired in the acute care setting (Haque et al., 2018). However, the term is now used to refer to all infections acquired across numerous care settings, include ambulatory care, home care, family medicine clinics, and long-term care, among others. These infections are noted to appear within a patient’s first 48 hours or more after hospitalization (Haque et al., 2018). However, they can also occur within 30 days after one is released from care. These infections pose a significant risk to patient safety and health outcomes. They are associated with long-term disability, additional financial burden, prolonged hospital stays, avoidable deaths, and antimicrobial resistance (Zhang et al., 2019).

Star Point 2:  Summary (Evidence to support need for a change)

Describe the practice problem in your own words and formulate your PICOT question.

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