You are the chief nursing officer in a large academic tertiary care center. You have been told that your organization has had an increase in nosocomial infections. As the chief nursing officer, you want to combat this problem that is impacting patient care.
Note: To complete the requirements below, you may use fictitious data or real data (if the name of the organization is changed). This task is focused on the process you would take, not the specifics of the data since this is a fictitious scenario.
Requirements:
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Respond (suggested length of 5-8 pages) to the requirements below as the chief nursing officer from the scenario.
A. Discuss evidence-based practices for reducing nosocomial infections, including one item from each of the following areas with specific evidence for how the item reduces infections: • products • technology • patient/family • finances • community relations
B. Analyze the impact of nosocomial infections on patient care. C. Complete a gap analysis in which you do the following: Note: Refer to the attached “Gap Analysis” template to assist with parts C through
C5.
1. Identify major causes that lead to the transmission of nosocomial infections. 2. Discuss the impact of stakeholder roles, responsibilities, and relationships on patient care outcomes. 3. Discuss the roles of infection control and education within the organization in the scenario and how they relate to each other. 4. Describe a strategy to combat the increase of nosocomial infections. 5. Discuss one goal for reducing nosocomial infections for each of the areas from part Al: • products • technology • patient/family • finances • community relations 6. Discuss possible solutions to the gap, anticipating potential challenges and using information from the gap analysis. a. Analyze one solution from part C6 to recommend in combatting nosocomial infections.