RUA: Topic Search Strategy Assignment
RUA: Topic Search Strategy Assignment
Research project topic: “Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting during a Pandemic”
Everything you are going to need is the attachment and don’t forget to do as it asks.
P.S please follow the instructions in the instructions box images. This paper is very important. Use the scholarly articles that are less than 5 years published. Don’t forget to go over the rubric while you write the paper. I need 3-4 pages, not including the title and references page
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The topic delegated to my team is improving hospital discharge through medication
reconciliation and education. This topic highlights the errors made by patient, caregivers and
family members because either of the lack of education during discharge or the lack of resources
to help them truly comprehend what is being explained during discharge processes and it also
highlights the important of medication reconciliation. In recent times , I cannot put a number on
the amount of articles I’ve read that detailed in deaths of patients due to self-dosage errors or
medication mixing when they’re supposed to be taken at separate times. The goal of my team is
to investigate ways to improve the hospital discharge process and also highlight how it
negatively impacts the medical field.
Clinical questions and answers will be developed by PICOT to assist in the conduct of
research on this issue. The population pertains to doctors and nurses that participate in discharge
processes. The intervention would be an execution of new policies and procedures during the
discharge process. The comparison would be between the current discharge process versus the
one that is implemented with patient safety in mind. The outcome or aim is to improve the
quality of treatment, the health of patients, and transparency in the discharge process. Length of
time could refer to the minutes to explain everything in full to patients and family member
during discharge .The PICOT question I formulated is: Does implementing new discharge
processes and teaching to nurses and doctors provide more education and medication
reconciliation to improve the quality of care patients receive after being discharged ? The
purpose of this RUA paper is to examine the research techniques used to classify two articles
pertaining to the proposed PICOT problem.
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IMPROVING HOSPITAL DISCHARGE 3
Levels of Evidence
In order to continue research on this project, it is important to find information that is
supported by evidence. I used the mixed method to carry out my research, which includes both
quantitative and qualitative designs. Quantitative research designs deal with measurements and
can check hypotheses to classify relationships or gauge the impact of interventions on outcomes.
Such designs may be cross-sectional, longitudinal, prospective or retrospective, depending on the
time factor (Houser, 2018). Qualitative designs are chosen to understand the meaning of
phenomena and may form the basis of theories (Houser, 2018). With both of these research
methods, we can find correlational data as well as using retrospective data about improving
patient discharge methods. I can also say that this would be an exploratory and experimental
study because based on the methods that we choose to address the phenomenon; we need data
and statistics to prove that those methods do indeed improve discharge methods. The question
being asked indicates if there are any ways to improve discharge processes and the article, I
found answer to the tune of educating nurses and doctors on better discharge methods.
Search Strategy
When conducting research on improving the discharge process in hospital settings the
terminology used that related to my PICOT question were “improving discharge process,”
“improving discharge teaching comprehension,” “improving hospital discharge through
education”, and “improving discharge through medication reconciliation and education”. I chose
to use the CINAHL and Google Scholars database. Both databases displayed articles, links, and
documents; however, the CINAHL only had 12 results, while Google Scholars had about
600,000 results. The range difference in the search results was terrific, so I tried altering the
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RUA: Topic Search Strategy Assignment