Posted: April 28th, 2016

Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change (alarm fatigue- nurses becoming desensitized to alarms due to the many devices with alarms that are often fals

Requirements:

A. Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change (alarm fatigue- nurses becoming desensitized to alarms due to the many devices with alarms that are often false).
1. Describe the current nursing practice.
2. Discuss why the current nursing practice needs to be changed.

B. Identify the key stakeholders within your healthcare setting who are part of the current nursing practice.
1. Describe the role EACH identified key stakeholder will play to support the proposed practice change (examples of key stakeholders: nurses, CNA’s, patients, family, physicians etc)

C. Create an evidence critique table (see “Sample Evidence Critique Table”).
1. Identify 5 SOURCES from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, which adhere to the following standards:
a. Each source must be published within the PAST FIVE YEARS.
b. Each source must relate to the change identified in part A.
c. Each source must be listed in the table using APA format.
2. Identify the evidence strength of each chosen source- see the description below under C3.
3. Identify the evidence hierarchy of each cho