You are the Nursing Unit Manager (NUM) of the Orthopaedic Ward. At the weekly Incident Monitoring Reporting meeting, your ward had a number of patient safety issues. Choose one clinical issue from the list below.
- Hospital Acquired Infection- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
As the NUM, the Hospital Executive have asked you to implement a strategy to reduce the burden of your chosen clinical issue and provide a report that identifies how you are going to address your chosen issue.
As an Evidence-based clinician, you search the CINAHL database to find a primary research article (NHMRC level II evidence) and appraise the article using the appropriate checklist from the CASP
Critical Appraisal Checklists:
https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/
Please use the following questions to structure you report to the Hospital Executive:
- Describe the burden of the clinical issue (what if you do nothing)
- Describe the proposed intervention and how this will impact the burden (what it the primary outcome of interest that will demonstrate the intervention has been effective)
- Report on the quality of the study; (the study’s ability to minimis bias; randomisation, blinding, intention-to-treat-analysis and outcome measures/length to follow-up)
- Describe the plan for evaluation (whether the intervention is effective).
The report is short (750 words); therefore you need to be succinct in your writing. This is not an essay. The questions can be used as sub-headings throughout your report.