Week 6 Assignment: EBP Change Process form
ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation
Follow Nurse Daniel as your process mentor in the weekly Illustration section of the lesson.
Name: _____________________
Star Poin
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Week 6 Assignment: EBP Change Process form
ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation
Follow Nurse Daniel as your process mentor in the weekly Illustration section of the lesson.
Name: _____________________
Star Point 1: Discovery (Identify topic and practice issue)
Identify the topic and the nursing practice issue related to this topic. (This MUST involve a
nursing practice issue.)
Surgical infections are one of the critical issues in healthcare facilities. The infection has various
adverse effects that include the infection of new illnesses, the deterioration of the existing illness
and even death. The topic of evaluation is the rising incidences of surgical infections in
healthcare facilities to establish the possible intervention measures.
Briefly describe your rationale for your topic selection. Include the scope of the
issue/problem.
Surgical infections have led to the reduction in patient safety thereby making hospitals inefficient
in discharging their role of providing efficient and effective patient care. The problem, which is
unavoidable on the patient’s side, has led to the development of various complications after
surgery as well as death of millions of patients across the world. It is therefore imperative to
define the problem and its causes, which would help develop possible intervention measures to
reduce or eliminate incidences of surgical infections.
Star Point 2: Summary (Evidence to support need for a change)
Describe the practice problem in your own words and formulate your PICOT question.
The high rate of surgical infections caused by errors and negligence continues the practice
problem. The infections range from failure to use Chlorhexidine as outlined in pre-operative
procedures, lack of due care and professionalism, common errors and negligence by health care
provides. Despite the wide-ranging effects of surgical infections, there is lacks sufficient
intervention measures to avert the situation.
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