PICOT RESEARCH PAPER Assignment Topic:Benchmark - Capstone Project Change ProposalSubject:NursingSources:8 sources requiredCitation Style:APA 7th edition Assessment DescriptionIn this assignment, stud

PROPOSE IMPLEMENTARY PLAN

My EBP change proposal is focused on preventing and reducing infection in long-term care facilities. When it comes to infection the first thing that nurses need to acquire is competency in identifying when there is an infection present in the patient. Nurses also needs education and training about infection prevention, Core Practices that are applicable to nurses and all healthcare personnel in all settings include, standard precautions, and transmission-based precautions.

Some of the issues that affects how infection are being handled is that organization leaders are not providing adequate resources to enable frontline personnel to consistently adhere to infection prevention practices. For example, providing proper personal protective gears to adequately render patient care. Preventing infection requires engagement of the patient, their families and caregivers, as well as other healthcare personnel. My suggestion is to empowered and enabled patients to perform self-care in a way that they will minimizes preventable harm. Often, they rely upon their family members and others for assistance. Patient engagement begins with shared information, an assessment of their ability to perform desired tasks, ensuring they can perform those tasks, evaluation of that performance, and feedback regarding improvement.

What had led me to my perspective and direction is that being a nurse, I have seen where patient comes into the facility for rehabilitation, and they ended up with infections that is not the least associated with what they were admitted for. This makes me uncomfortable because most if not all are associated with proper hand hygiene. Thus, I decided I want to make a difference.

References

Carrico R, Rebmann T, English JF, Mackey J, Cronin. (2008). Infection prevention and control competencies for hospital-based health care personnel. American Journal of Infection Control. 2008 December; 36(10):691–701.

Kwok YLA, Gralton J, McLaws M-L. Face touching: a frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene. Am J Infect Control. 2015;43(2):112-4. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.015