COURSE  

NR351: Transitions in Professional Nursing

Discussion

Select a challenging nursing care issue (examples include falls, medication errors, pressure ulcers, and other clinical issues that can be improved by evidence in nursing). Do not select a medical issue (disease, medical treatment). Do not select a workforce issue (staffing, call-offs, nurse to patient ratios). Explain the following for the selected clinical issue.

• State the issue.
• Explain the process you would use to search CINAHL for evidence. Include your search terms.

Solution

Week 5 Discussion: Using Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Patient Care

An issue that can benefit from Evidence-based practice (EBP) is medication errors. Medication errors have short to long-term/ mild to severe consequences which patient health outcomes and quality of life. Among these consequences are an increase in health care costs, rates of hospitalization and re-hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality rates (Johnson et al., 2017). Many EBPs have been established to help in the prevention and reduction of medical errors.…………….please follow the link below to purchase the solution at $5