UTS 92790 Evidence Based Practice: Problem Identification & Finding

This assignment solution provides a detailed walkthrough of an Evidence-Based Practice assignment, focusing on problem identification and evidence finding within a healthcare context. It includes the application of the PS framework to formulate a research question concerning the effectiveness of hand hygiene techniques using alcohol-based hand rub among nurses and doctors in reducing hospital-acquired infections. The solution outlines the process of identifying key search terms, developing a systematic search strategy using 'OR' and 'AND' operators, and documenting the database search process with a screenshot. The assignment also addresses the selection of appropriate study types, such as systematic reviews and qualitative studies, to answer the research question effectively. This document demonstrates the application of evidence-based practice principles in addressing real-world healthcare challenges. Desklib provides a platform for students to access similar solved assignments and past papers for comprehensive study support.

ASSESSMENT ONE: SUBMISSION TEMPLATE
Please complete your assessment activities in the following pages and submit this into Turnitin:
 PICO or PS Worksheet
 Search Strategy Worksheet
 A picture (must be readable) of your systematic literature search in an appropriate database
PICO or PS Worksheet
Select only 1 – either PICO or PS (PICO for Quantitative situation type questions, or PS for qualitative situation type
questions) You may delete the framework you have not used from the worksheet.
My situation of uncertainty of best practice related to a:
** Quantitative type of question: I have completed the PICO question ⃝
** Qualitative type of question: I have completed the PS question 
QUALITATIVE TYPE
1. Use the following categories to help define your problem and what you are looking at in simple terms
PS Patient/Problem, Situation. (Qualitative situation)
(remember to use your readings to help you if you are unsure)
Patient/Problem: _____Hand hygiene, alcohol based hand rub, nurses, doctors ______________________
Situation: __________Hospital acquired infections _______________________________________
2. Now use these terms from the question above to create your PS research question so that you have a clear
purpose for your search:
“Effectiveness of hand hygiene technique by alcohol based hand rub among nurses and doctors for the reduction of
hospital acquired infections.”
3. What type of question do you think this PS answers?
This PS will answer following question:
- Whether implementation of alcohol based hand rub among nurses will be effective to reduce hospital acquired
infections?
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4. The table below will help you to think of the other terms that you might also like to look up when searching for
evidence to help you answer your question – this is part of basic planning for a research search.
 We ask you to look up alternative terms because sometimes articles from health systems call things different names – for example,
in Australia we sometimes us the term ‘community nurses’, but in the UK they often talk about ‘district nurses’ – if you only searched
under ‘district nurse’ you’d miss all the articles which used the other term – you would be missing some of the picture!
QUALITATIVE QUESTION (Delete as appropriate)
Population Situation
What is your population? Main search term:
‘Nurse’, ‘Doctors’
What other terms might have been used?
Alternative search terms:
‘Care giver’, ‘GP’, ‘Registered Nurse’, ‘RN’
What is your intervention? Main search term:
‘Alcohol based hand rub’, ‘hospital’ ‘infections’
What other terms might have been used?
Alternative search terms:
‘Hand sanitizer’, ‘illness’, ‘bacterial infections’, ‘Viral
infections’, ‘Health care’
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5. Is there a particular group of people that you want to look at? List here any inclusion criteria you might use to
refine your search if you have too many papers:
Gender: ____________NA______________ Age Range: __________NA_________________
Publication Dates: ____Last 5 years________ Language: __________English______________
6. What kind of study do you think would best answer your question? Select here which type of article you might
want to access. You can also use these to refine your search if you have a lot of papers.
 Systematic Review
□ Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
□ Cohort Study
 Case-control Study/Case Series
 Qualitative Study
□ Economic Evaluation
 Clinical Practice Guidelines
Systematic Search Plan (this is what we call a Search Strategy)
7. Now that you have decided on WHAT you will be searching, you need to put down a plan of HOW you will search
for your articles. This helps you and others to see how you got your evidence and how you made sure you got the
best evidence to help you decide on your clinical action.
 Using the PICO terms in your table, enter each term in a row (group them together under the PICO categories).
 The next step is to combine similar terms using ‘OR’ so that you have all the papers on the same topic together
 The final step is to find papers which only talk about both the population AND the intervention. To do this you use ‘AND’ in the
database.
Key terms:
1 Nurse, Alcohol based hand rub, hospital acquired infection
2 Doctors, Alcohol based hand rub hospital, acquired infection
3 Nurse, hand sanitizer, hospital acquired infection
4 Doctor, hand sanitizer, hospital acquired infection
5 Nurse, hand sanitizer, health care infection
6 Doctor, hand sanitizer, health care infection
7 Nurse OR RN OR Registered Nurse OR Care giver, Hand sanitizer OR alcohol based hand rub, Hospital OR
Health care, infections
8 Doctors OR GP, Hand sanitizer OR alcohol based hand rub, Hospital OR Health care, infections OR illness
9 Doctors OR Nurse, Hand sanitizer OR alcohol based hand rub, Hospital OR Health care, infections OR
illness
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14 __ OR___OR___OR___ (combine alternate terms for same topic)
15 __ OR___OR___OR___ (combine alternate terms for same topic)
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16 ____AND____
OR = combine alternate terms for the same topic – to get as many potential papers as possible!
AND = combine the groups of topics to get papers which cover ALL the terms!
8. The final step is to paste in a picture (screenshot/screengrab) of the search that you did in the database. The
picture has to be readable!!!
In providing this you show your marker that you are able to take your strategy and apply this into a database system.
You also show us that you understand the systematic approach to searching and your understanding of how to use OR
and AND as tools to draw together the articles you are interested in. You can use limits, but you would only do this if
you wanted to refine your search because you had too many papers to search through.
Screenshot of the search results:
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