LITERATURE REVIEW
The purpose of this assignment is to state your clinical/practice question and explore the literature pertaining to your clinical/practice problem. When conducting a literature review, the goal is to obtain a representative sample of the literature which describes the concepts related to the phenomenon of interest and the research results applicable to the clinical/practice question and identify what gaps need to be further researched. This assignment is worth 20% of Course Grade.
Instructions:
- Please follow the rubric below.
- Your work for this paper can be used to build upon your scholarly project and publishable manuscript.
- Paper length is no more than 8 pages excluding references and title page.
Here is my PICOT question:
1. Is there any relationship between the decreases in the rate of falls in adult patients in hospital compared to increasing nursing staffing?
P- Adult patients in the hospital
I-Increase in nursing staffing
C-Compare to the increase in nursing staffing
O-Rate of falls decrease
T-
Please write the paper as rubric attached below! Please please follow the rubric please follow the rubric below. Please please edit and proofread before sending the work. T
ANSWER PREVIEWOne of the challenges encountered in inpatient facilities is patient falls. The falls range from minor ones which pose no physical threat to the patient to major ones which cause severe injury and even death. My practice question is, “is there a relationship between the decreases in rates of falls in adult patients in hospitals compared to increasing nursing staffing?” The research seeks to identify the relationship between the two variables by determining where or not increases in nursing staffing could positively affect the incidence of falls among adults in the hospital. The independent variable in this study is the increase in nursing staff while the dependent variable is the rates of fall among adults in hospitals. The nursing staff affects the falls hence, it is regarded as the independent variable.
The question can be broken down using the PICOT format. The population in my study is the adult patients. The Intervention is the increase…
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