Evidence-Based Nursing Inquiry: Infection Prevention Strategies

This assignment focuses on clinical inquiry within nursing practices, specifically addressing infection prevention. The student explores the importance of questioning clinical practices to improve patient safety and outcomes. The assignment includes an introduction to clinical inquiry, highlighting its significance in evidence-based nursing. The student identifies the issue of infection in clinical settings, emphasizing the challenges faced by nurses and the need for proactive measures. The assignment uses keywords related to clinical inquiry and infection prevention to search for relevant sources. Several sources and databases are selected, including works by Facchiano & Snyder, Burnett, White & Spruce, and Zitella et al. These sources provide insights into the importance of clinical inquiry, the role of nurses in infection prevention, and the use of evidence-based practices. The assignment brief requires the student to complete a matrix worksheet, providing full citations, rationale for article selection, aims, research methodologies, and strengths of the methodologies used, including reliability and validity. The goal is to apply research methodologies to the clinical issue of infection prevention.

EVIDENCE BASED
NURSING
Clinical Inquiry for Prevention of Infection

An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry
 Clinical inquiry skills are essential in nursing to guarantee
that best practices being followed.
 Clinical inquiry is the exercise of enquiring questions
about clinical practice.
 During the practices, nurses learn many things after
entering the clinical field, Evidence Based Practices
allows the nurses to raise questions about what is being
learned and delivered this falls under the premises of
clinical inquiry.
 It allows nurses to raise any query, ask about the reason
why it is as, and implement the solution in a practised
and described from according to the organisation.

Brief Description of the
issue Prevention of infection
 Infection in the clinical practices is the common and
most dangerous risk associated with the clinical
based practices. Nurses curing the patients face
hygienic and safety challenges from their working,
especially in an I C U they had to manage patient’s
as well as their safety from beings infected.
 Nurses are authorised to raise question about the
policies and practices in a hospital regarding the
prevention of infection for the nursing staffs,
patients and other members of the family.

Used keywords to search on the chosen clinical issue of interest
This paper used the keywords
“sensitive areas of practices where clinical
inquiry is important by the clinical
practisers.”

Selected Sources and Database
1. According to Faccinao & Synder rasing the question in
the nursing practice is important and essanitiall for the
practicers to improve the quality of the preacticeanf to
assure the safty and protection from infection
2. According to Burnett, nurses in the clinical practice
have to make efforts to identify the challenges that may
be experienced in ensuring effective infection
prevention and control, and how these can be
addressed. and to understand the knowledge and
competence required for nurses to practise safely, act
as a role model for colleagues, and educate patients
about infection prevention and control

Selected Sources and Database
3. Accrding to White and Sprauce nurse
leaders have authority to provide praciticla
guidleines for the clinical practicers treating
them prevention of infection
4. According to Zitella, Laura, et al.al
evidence based nursing practices are
esssantila to use the clinical inquirey about
the issues faced regualy in the care.

References and Citations
 Burnett E (2018) Effective infection prevention and control:
the nurse’s role. Nursing Standard. doi:
10.7748/ns.2018.e11171
 Facchiano, L., & Snyder, C. H. (2012). Evidence-based
practice for the busy nurse practitioner: Part one: Relevance
to clinical practice and clinical inquiry process. Journal of the
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 24(10),
 White, S., & Spruce, L. (2015). Perioperative nursing leaders
implement clinical practice guidelines using the Iowa Model
of Evidence-Based Practice. AORN journal, 102(1), 50-59.
 Zitella, L., Friese, C. R., Gobel, B. H., Woolery-Antill, M.,
O'Leary, C., & Hauser, J. (2006). Putting evidence into
practice (PEP): Prevention of infection.