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Use this document to complete Part 2 of the Module 2 Assessment, Evidence-Based Project, Part 1: An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry and Part 2: Research Methodologies

Full citation of selected article

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Storr, J., Twyman, A., Zingg, W., Damani, N., Kilpatrick, C., Reilly, J., & Allegranzi, B. (2017). Core components for effective infection prevention and control programmes: new WHO evidence-based recommendations. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control6(1), 6.

Carrico, R. M., Garrett, H., Balcom, D., & Glowicz, J. B. (2019). Infection prevention and control core practices: A roadmap for nursing practice. The Nurse Practitioner Journal44(3), 50-55.

Vinodhini, K., & DEVI, A. B. (2016). Study on Infection Control Pratices Among Health Care Workers in a Speciality Hospital, Chennai. Pollution Research35(3), 551-2.

Bahadur, S., Jan, A., Younas, A., Ahmad, I., Javed, S., Amaar, S., & Murad, S. (2017). Infection Prevention and Control Practices Observed by Students of a Medical College.

Why you chose this article and/or how it relates to the clinical issue of interest (include a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest)

The reason for selecting this article is that it provides valuable insights into the best practices in infection control. In particular, the article stresses on the significance of infection control practices in reducing healthcare associated infections, which are some of the most common adverse events that occur in care delivery. Moreover, the article recommends the use of infection control best practices in order to reduce hospital costs.

This study is important because it highlights the role of nursing in implementing infection controls in health care institutions. Moreover, the article sheds light on the significance of ethics and integrity in preventing and controlling hospital acquired infections. To this end, this article increases health care professionals’ ability to translate evidences into practice in order to sustain he successful implementation of the core practices of infection control.

This journal article is relevant to the current research because it explores the problem of hospital acquired infections as major global safety concern for both patients and health professionals. The article also examines the factors that increase infections among hospitalized patients and how to reduce them. Such factors include: decreased resistance among patients, increasing variations of medical procedures, as well as invasive techniques in crafting possible routes of infection.

The reason for selecting this article is that it provides ideas related to preventing hospital associated infections caused by drug resistant micro-organisms. This is especially the case with gram-negative pathogens, which are a significant burden on the health care system.

Brief description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article

The purpose of the study was to identify the evidence and examine current infection control practices and assess their levels of effectiveness.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the core infection prevention and control practices for safe health care delivery in all settings. Additionally, the researchers investigated the role of nurses in infection prevention and control.

The study aims to evaluate and compare the infection control practices and policies among health care providers.

The purpose of the study is to determine the infection control measures practiced by medical students of a private medical college.

Brief description of the research methodology used Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative , quantitative , or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.

The pain research method used in the study was qualitative design. The researchers used a systematic review method to determine current evidence-based guidelines of hospital control programs. The review was created to include publications from 1996 to 2012. Key research questions were identified and formulated using PICO process.

The researchers used qualitative exploratory design to explore nurses’ role in infection control and prevention. The results were analyzed using thematic analysis. In particular, the researchers identify four themes to identify the key drivers of infection control practices: support from leadership, education and training, patient and caregiver education, as well as performance monitoring and feedback.

The study used descriptive quantitative research design to obtain information concerning the current status from the respondents to describe what exists with regard to the variables in the situation. The descriptive design sought to obtain a wide range of data from the survey, which describe the existing state or conditions in target hospitals. The descriptive correlational design also examined the relationship between variables related to regulations and policies on management and control of nosocomial infections in hospitals.

The researchers used cross-sectional descriptive design based on self-administered questionnaires. Additionally, the study was quantitative in nature and the results were analyzed using SPSS.

A brief description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

One strength of the qualitative systematic review method is that it is rigorous, transparent, and replicable. Therefore, it improves the quality and strength of traditional literature reviews. To increase validity and reliability, the researchers clearly explained how the inclusion or exclusion of studies in the systematic review was done. Additionally, the researchers clearly explained the quality of the research sources that were used in the study.

One of the benefits of the research methods used is that they are far more experimental and focused on capturing people’s feelings and views on infection control. Additionally, the research method used properly identifies the leadership traits that are needed to promote infection control best practices.

The descriptive correlational design is effective in providing an in-depth view of the research topic. Additionally, the study provides the ability to observe the phenomenon in a wholly natural and unchanged environment.

One strength of the methodology used is that it can be used to capture multiple variables. Additionally, the cross-sectional quantitative research can be applied in different types of research methods using different data gathering tools.

General Notes/Comments

This source is particularly important in launching infection prevention and control educational and training programs across different health care delivery domains.

This scholarly article is important in providing information on the standard precautions that should be embraced during infection control processes. Standard precautions are foundational practices that are commonly employed to prevent the movements of pathogens during the course of care delivery.

This article is important because it provides strategies of preventing nosocomial infections. For instance, the researchers suggest the need to provide appropriate feedback of surveillance data to clinician and infection control committee to take steps to control infections.

From this article, it can be deduced that infection control is a discipline that focuses on preventing nosocomial or health care associated infections. Additionally, infection control is a sub-discipline in epidemiology that forms an essential yet commonly unrecognized and under-supported part of the infrastructures of health care. Health care associated infections can be caused by drug-resistant micro-organisms, particularly gram-negative pathogens. The transmission of infection thus acts as a growing concern in the health care sector. Visiting health care facilities is a common practice in the United States and other parts of the world. However, the potential role of visitors in the spread of health care associated infection is a widely overlooked subject. As such, infection control is a concept that seeks to address different factors associated with spread of infections within health care settings.

References

Bahadur, S., Jan, A., Younas, A., Ahmad, I., Javed, S., Amaar, S., & Murad, S. (2017). Infection Prevention and Control Practices

Observed by Students of a Medical College. Rehman Med Inst. Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3.

Carrico, R. M., Garrett, H., Balcom, D., & Glowicz, J. B. (2019). Infection prevention and control core practices: A roadmap for

nursing practice. The Nurse Practitioner Journal, 44(3), 50-55.

Storr, J., Twyman, A., Zingg, W., Damani, N., Kilpatrick, C., Reilly, J., & Allegranzi, B. (2017). Core components for effective

infection prevention and control programmes: new WHO evidence-based recommendations. Antimicrobial Resistance &

Infection Control, 6(1), 6.

Vinodhini, K., & DEVI, A. B. (2016). Study on Infection Control Pratices Among Health Care Workers in a Speciality Hospital,

Chennai. Pollution Research, 35(3), 551-2.

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