NR 449 Week 3 RUA.docx NR 449 Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandem

NR 449 Week 3 RUA.docx  NR 449  Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic  Chamberlain University College of Nursing  NR 449: Evidence-Based Practice  Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic- Clinical Question  As a member of Group 1, the topic that will be discussed within this paper is Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic. Patient safety ranks at the top of the list and continues to be an issue in the hospital setting. During a pandemic, patient safety is a major priority and safety can be viewed as more than just preventing the spread of infection. Compromised patient safety comes in many different shapes and forms in a hospital setting such as lack of trust in healthcare team members, burnout among healthcare team members, or lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). Our groups focus is on how standard precautions impact patient safety during a pandemic. Taking the issues that has been previously stated nearly fifty percent of them is preventable (World Health Organization, 2019). As a group, to determine our focus for our topic we formulated a PICOT question. The PICOT components are, P stands for the Problem or Population, I is for Intervention, C is for Comparison, O is for Outcome/s, and T is for Time Frame. Our PICOT question that we formulated is, In the hospital setting, is there evidence that patient safety is impacted during a pandemic? The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on how the levels of evidence, resear