Evidence Based Nursing Research

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
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Question 1:
The EARLY SAVE program had been highly successful, as the initiatives taken during
the program had helped in earlier recognition of the deteriorating conditions of the patients. The
data, which had been put forward by nursing informatics team, can help in supporting the claim
made:
 Initially, before the introduction of the EARLY SAVE program, cases of acute
respiratory distress were 25% that decreased to 10% after the introduction of the
program. Similar had been the cases of suspected cardiac pain as well. Before the
introduction of the program, cases of suspected cardiac pain and deterioration was 20%.
This percentage reduced to 10%. This showed that the initiatives taken in the EARLY
SAVE program had helped in developing the knowledge and skills of the healthcare
professionals in ways by which they could easily identify the deteriorating cardiac
condition of the patients and take necessary actions before the muscles of the heart were
to a threatening limit (Mok et al. 2015, pp: 207-213).
 The data also showed that the healthcare professionals had gained the skills of early
recognition of the strenuous conditions in patients. Before the EARLY SAVE program,
the MET team was called only for 20% of the cases for the worsening respiratory
situations. However, after the EARLY SAVE program, the professionals could rightly
identified more number of patients with such worsening situations accounting for about
30%. This showed that more lives of patients were able to be saved by the professionals
as they had called the MET team at the right time after quick realizations of deteriorating
situation of patients (Kollef et al. 2014, pp.424-429).

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 Moreover, the cases of patients being transferred to the ICU after the introduction of the
program also showed that care had been taken by nurses in such a prominent ways and
they were kept in such acute observation, that deterioration of the patient and consecutive
transfer to ICU became lower and patients remaining on the ward became higher.
Therefore, the health of the patients was maintained on the ward itself in a skilled manner
and hence expenditure of the health resources was also controlled (Churpek et al. 2016,
p.368).
Question 2:
Standard eight, put forward by the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards,
advises the healthcare professionals as well as the organizations to take actions that are required
to support and promote effective detection of the deteriorating conditions of the patient and take
actions at the right time (NSQHS 2017). It also prevents expenditure of healthcare resources of
the organizations and saves the economic outflow of the family members and emotional and
mental turmoil faced by them (Jhonston et al. 2015, pp.752-763)..
The data that had been presented in the form of graph shows that there was indeed
reduction in the number of patient transfers to ICU showing that rates of patients being admitted
there had decreased. It is mainly because of effective and keen observation of the nurses and
their skilled interventions that had helped the high-risk patients to overcome different risks.
Patients staying in the ward were higher, showing deterioration rates had decreased as the
general care given to patients was so expertise that patients did not undergo deterioration at all.
The EARLY SAVE program had trained nurses so well that they could correctly summon the
MET team at the right time immediately after sensing clinical deterioration of the patient.