21 Sep Every day in hospitals across the United States

Research Critique Guidelines – Part I

Use this document to organize your essay. Successful completion of this assignment requires that you provide a rationale, include examples, and reference content from the studies in your responses.

Qualitative Studies

Background of Study

1.      Summary of studies. Include problem, significance to nursing, purpose, objective, and research question.

Every day in hospitals across the United States, safety errors occur due to a lack of communication between healthcare providers. The Joint Commission has estimated Hospitals across the nation that “80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication between caregivers during the transfer of patients”. Additionally, per Becker’s Hospital Review, one-third of malpractice cases involving nursing cite a breakdown in communication. Many hospitals across the country have set the standard that bedside reporting is to be conducted at the change of each shift, yet the shift-change report is often not executed at the bedside for various reasons. Nurses often cite bedside reporting is time-consuming between patient interruptions and various nurses giving and/or receiving reports; however, research shows bedside (Crumlish, Yialamas, McMahon, 2009).

The study is significant to the nurses in the fact that it gives the nurses an overview on the importance of keenly monitoring the patients and taking the recording the finding to avoid negligence. The purpose of the study is to find out the possible ways of increasing the bed check rounds, which will reduce the number of incidences occurring due to negligence. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the risks associated with unfrequented beside checkups.

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