92447 Navigating Transition
Question:
- Identify a target audience for your learning resource (for example, new graduate RNs, first year student RNs, aged care AINs, mental health AINs)
- Identify an intended goal for your learning resource based on current nursing evidence of learning gaps in your chosen cohort
- Research what type of learning resources will satisfy your learning intended outcome with your intended audience.
- In addition to what is stated on the template, references must be provided which identifies the accuracy of your content.
Answer:
Audience Learning Objectives:
PPE is used to protect the healthcare workers from infections. Thus, the primary learning objective is to explain use of PPE to new graduate RNs.
Purpose:
The major purpose of the eposter is to disseminate relevant information to the new graduate RNs who have joined a medical facility on the different benefits and advantages that personal protective equipment offers in healthcare settings. In other words, the role of the eposter is to broadcast messages to the graduate nurses, with the aim of increasing their awareness on the different items such as, gloves, gowns and masks that should be worn, while operating a patient or caring for a patient. While there are different ways by which scientific information can be disseminated such as, websites, blogs, videos, and slogans, eposter has been selected for the purpose due to the fact that posters form an integral part of academic conferences and allow the incorporation of multi-media formats graphs and other illustrations, without any significant printing costs. It is utmost essential to wear the right kind of PPE that includes clothing and specialised equipment for protecting self and the patients from all kinds of germs (Verbeek et al., 2016). PPE have been found to act in the form of a barrier between the bacteria, virus or fungi that has a risk of being transmitted, and the person exposed to the germs. Some of the most common PPE include masks, face shields, gloves, gowns, and goggles. The eposter will help the nurses to get a sound understanding of the fact that they are not required to put on PPE in every situation. Depending on the kind of infection or germ, they might require wearing a mask or gloves (Bosanko and Boylan 2013). The research question in this scenario will be formulated with the use of the PICO framework. This will help in meeting the learning objectives. The PICO question for the eposter is as follows:
Do PPE reduce rates of infection in a healthcare setting?
A hospital acquired infection (HAI), also referred to as nosocomial infection is any kind of infection that an individual gets in a healthcare setting such as, outpatient clinics, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and hospitals. Healthcare workers have been found largely responsible for the spread of such infection, besides other means such as, bed linen, air droplets or contamination with equipment (Lewis et al. 2013). Hence, there is a need for the staff to adopt essential protective measures. In certain cases the germ originates from the own microbiota of the patient skin, becoming unscrupulous following, surgery or other clinical procedures that damage the protective barrier of the skin. Furthermore, healthcare staff also come in contact with body fluids and blood of the patients (Mbaisi, Wanzala and Omolo 2013). This in turn increases their chances of infection. Contact transmission has been identified as the most frequent route of spread of infection among the healthcare staff from the patients. Furthermore, transmission also occurs under situation where droplets are generated from the patient during the conduction of some surgical procedures like bronchospcopy (Salama et al. 2013). Taking into consideration the fact that the registered nurses are most often involved in direct patient care that requires personal contact with the patients, PPEs are most suitable for preventing infection.
References:
Bosanko, C. and Boylan, M., 2013. Personal Protective Equipment. ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine, 258, p.7.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014. Guidance on personal protective equipment to be used by healthcare workers during management of patients with Ebola virus disease in US hospitals, including procedures for putting on (donning) and removing (doffing). Atlanta, GA: CDC.
Cornejo-Juárez, P., Vilar-Compte, D., Pérez-Jiménez, C., Namendys-Silva, S.A., Sandoval-Hernández, S. and Volkow-Fernández, P., 2015. The impact of hospital-acquired infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria in an oncology intensive care unit. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 31, pp.31-34.
Fischer II, W.A., Weber, D.J. and Wohl, D.A., 2015. Personal protective equipment: Protecting health care providers in an Ebola outbreak. Clinical therapeutics, 37(11), pp.2402-2410.
Hersi, M., Stevens, A., Quach, P., Hamel, C., Thavorn, K., Garritty, C., Skidmore, B., Vallenas, C., Norris, S.L., Egger, M. and Eremin, S., 2015. Effectiveness of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers caring for patients with filovirus disease: a rapid review. PloS one, 10(10), p.e0140290.
John, A., Tomas, M.E., Cadnum, J.L., Mana, T.S., Jencson, A., Shaikh, A., Zabarsky, T.F., Wilson, B.M. and Donskey, C.J., 2016. Are health care personnel trained in correct use of personal protective equipment?. American journal of infection control, 44(7), pp.840-842.
Lewis, S.S., Moehring, R.W., Chen, L.F., Sexton, D.J. and Anderson, D.J., 2013. Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 34(11), pp.1229-1230.
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Mbaisi, E.M., Wanzala, P. and Omolo, J., 2013. Prevalence and factors associated with percutaneous injuries and splash exposures among health-care workers in a provincial hospital, Kenya, 2010. Pan African Medical Journal, 14(1).
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Mitchell, R., Roth, V., Gravel, D., Astrakianakis, G., Bryce, E., Forgie, S., Johnston, L., Taylor, G., Vearncombe, M. and Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2013. Are health care workers protected? An observational study of selection and removal of personal protective equipment in Canadian acute care hospitals. American journal of infection control, 41(3), pp.240-244.
Salama, M. F., Jamal, W. Y., Al Mousa, H., Al-AbdulGhani, K. A., & Rotimi, V. O. (2013). The effect of hand hygiene compliance on hospital-acquired infections in an ICU setting in a Kuwaiti teaching hospital. Journal of infection and public health, 6(1), 27-34.
Verbeek, J.H., Ijaz, S., Mischke, C., Ruotsalainen, J.H., Mäkelä, E., Neuvonen, K., Edmond, M.B., Sauni, R., Balci, F.S.K. and Mihalache, R.C., 2016. Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (4).
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