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.

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.

1. 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:

1. Describe the burden of the clinical issue (what if you do nothing)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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.