Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Overview:
Create a 4-6 page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing a current health care problem or issue of interest to you.
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For this assessment, you will select and research a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization. Read each portion of the assessment carefully and use the Suggested Resources to help you complete the assessment. This assessment provides an opportunity to apply research skills to a current health care problem or issue.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
· Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.
· Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
· Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
· Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, and that is consistent with expectations for health care professionals.
· Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
· Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, a family member, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
· How do you approach a problem or issue within your organization, when you observe it?
· How often have you needed to find credible information to solve a personal or professional problem? How did you find the information you needed?
· What are peer-reviewed resources? Why are peer-reviewed resources considered to be credible and valid?
· How would you explore evidence-based best practices in your field of study?
Apply the Socratic approach
Applying the Socratic approach to problem solving helps you identify gaps and improve your thinking when writing papers or completing projects. The questions may be used to spark new insights when responding to discussion topics and posts.
· Identify the elements of the problem, issue, or question
· Analyze, define, and frame the problem, issue, or question
· Consider solutions, responses, or answers
· Choose a solution, response, or answer
Topics to choose from (Choose 1 of these 4)
Topic 1-Limited Access to Healthcare.
(Consumers face barriers to healthcare access for assorted reasons. For example: due to geographic location, provider availability, transportation issues and mobility.)
Topic 2-Health Care Disparities.
In 2010, the Federal Department of Human and Health Service (DHHS) launched the Healthy People 2020 goals to include a goal to eliminate health inequality/disparity. Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion” (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2017, p.1). Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Topic 3- Medications errors.
A medication error is a preventable adverse effect of a patient taking the wrong medication or dosage, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medication errors can be a source of serious patient harm, including death
Topic 4- Health Care System Errors.
The health care system in the United States has been the subject of much debate as experts try to determine the best way to deliver high-quality care. In Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine (2001) called for the redesign of health care delivery systems and their external environments to promote care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
Additional Requirements
1. Length: At least 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
2. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
3. APA Template: Use the APA Style Paper Template as the paper format and the APA Style Paper Tutorial for guidance. See the Resources for these documents.
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Applying Research Skills
Learner’s Name
Capella University
Developing a Health Care Perspective
Applying Research Skills
February, 2018
Comment [A1]: You effectively used the APA Template paper format.
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Applying Research Skills
With the advent of new technologies and treatment methods, health care organizations
are facing many challenges. Patient safety is one such challenge that needs to be addressed not
only by health care professionals but also by other stakeholders in the business. Ensuring patient
safety is essential for providing quality health care.
As a medical transcriptionist, I am responsible for converting voice-recorded reports of
health care professionals into text. Although I am not directly involved in treating patients, any
errors that occur during the transcription process could result in inaccurate documentation of
medical data. For example, one of my colleagues documented the dosage of Lasix as 400 mg
instead of 40 mg in a discharge summary. When the health care professional who had dictated
the report reviewed it, he was able to spot the error in the dosage and correct it, which helped
prevent the patient from having a dangerous reaction to the incorrect dosage. This incident
helped me realize the importance of preparing accurate documents for ensuring patient safety
and delivering quality care. I developed a keen interest in issues relating to patient safety ever
since.
Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Using Summon, Capella University Library’s search engine, I accessed databases relating
to health care, such as ProQuest Central and PubMed Central. I used keywords such as health
care issues, patient safety, and quality of care to search for peer-reviewed literature relevant to
patient safety. Using the advanced search option, I limited my search to scholarly and peer-
reviewed journals, choosing journal article as the publication type, medicine and nursing as the
subjects, and articles published within the last five years as the publication date range.
Comment [A2]: You effectively summarized a health care problem and described an interest in the topic, and provided an informative example.
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Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources
To ensure credibility, I selected peer-reviewed journal articles that were published within
the past five years. I made sure that the selected sources were published by authors who were
well-known in the field of health care and had extensive professional experience.
To ensure that the chosen sources of information were relevant to the topic, I confirmed
that they contained accepted facts and opinions on issues relating to patient safety and quality
care. I also checked whether each information source had a clearly defined purpose and
contained pertinent information about patient safety and quality care.
Annotated Bibliography
Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2). Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA Network, 316(5), 489–490.
Retrieved from https://jamanetwork-
com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945
This article provides a viewpoint on the progress that hospitals have made toward
reducing patient harm and understand the factors that have led to this progress. The
authors cite reports released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
and the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to analyze the occurrence of issues
relating to patient safety in hospitals. The authors hypothesize that improvement in health
care safety for hospitalized patients may have been possible because of reasons such as
an awareness of the importance of improving safety culture with evidence-based
suggestions. The authors conclude by expressing the need for finding ways to maintain or
accelerate the rate of decline in adverse events relating to patient harm. They believe that
Comment [A3]: Sub-headers are a helpful resource to use to organize your writing!
Comment [A4]: As you noted, it is best to select current peer-reviewed academic journal articles to ensure current practices. Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Comment [A5]: In your annotation, you effectively identified the purpose of the article.
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investing in patient safety research programs and ensuring that patient safety remains a
high priority for hospital leadership teams can help reduce the number of adverse events.
This article is relevant to patient safety because it examines evidence of reduction in
patient harms in hospitals and offers approaches to reduce such harms.
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st century—Competencies required of future medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200–204. Retrieved from https://search-
proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F9C5B900402CPQ/1?acc
ountid=27965
In this article, the authors express their concern about health care professionals,
particularly medical laboratory science (MLS) practitioners, being insufficiently trained
to achieve the five core competencies that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified in
2002. The authors discuss ways to incorporate patient safety practices and concepts in the
MLS curricula to ensure that future MLS practitioners are well-versed in the above-
mentioned competencies identified by the IOM. The authors conclude that by focusing on
the aims and competencies identified by the IOM, future practitioners will be better
equipped to deal with patient safety concerns while practicing MLS. This article was
chosen because it offers a solution for dealing with patient safety issues and explains how
patient safety concepts can be incorporated in the curricula for courses pertaining to
Comment [A6]: In your annotation, you clearly summarized the main argument and the topics covered.
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health care, such as MLS, to enable future health care practitioners to provide effective
health care. Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The role of hospital managers in quality
and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9). http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
This article provides a systematic review of available empirical literature to understand
how health care managers are involved in delivering quality health care and ensuring
patient safety. Based on the literature review, the authors suggest that board-level
managers should spend more than 25% of their time on patient safety and quality to
ensure positive outcomes; however, most of the reviewed studies indicate that they spend
much less time than that. The authors also present a quality management input process
output (IPO) model, a framework that will help managers function effectively and
achieve health care quality and safety. The authors conclude that there is a need to make
certain changes in hospitals to ensure the active involvement of managers in quality
improvement. The article is relevant to patient safety because it discusses the role of
health care managers in influencing patient safety and quality care outcomes and also
proposes a model to help managers understand this role.
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 41(5), 447–456, 505. Retrieved from
https://search-proquest-
Comment [A7]: In your annotation, you effectively included the conclusions and findings of the article.
Comment [A8]: You listed the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and used APA format for the annotated bibliography. An impressive application of APA formatting!
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This article provides a general understanding of the concepts of patient safety and patient
safety culture. The authors explain that the health care system is complex and patient
safety is the responsibility of every individual in a health care organization. They discuss
some tools that can be used to measure patient safety culture, for example, the Safety
Attitudes Questionnaire and the Patient Safety Culture Improvement Tool. They also
examine several strategies to encourage a patient safety culture, such as ensuring that
patient safety is given as much importance as other core business functions. This article
was chosen because it offers strategies for preventing adverse events relating to patient
safety and emphasizes the importance of teamwork within a health care organization to
ensure safe patient care.
Learnings From the Research
I gathered important facts and scholarly opinions about patient safety by going through
peer-reviewed journal articles. This research enriched my knowledge about patient safety. For
example, after reading the article on improving safety for hospitalized patients by Kronick,
Arnold, and Brady (2016), I learned about patient harms (such as catheter-associated urinary
tract infections and pressure ulcers) that I was unaware of before this research. Further, by
creating an annotated bibliography, I was able to build a repository of scholarly resources
relating to patient safety. This will make it easier for me to choose relevant resources while
writing the paper on issues concerning patient safety. Discussion: Applying Research Skills
Comment [A9]: Peer-reviewed journal articles are validated sources. Outstanding article choices!
Comment [A10]: You effectively summarized the main points learned from your research.
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References
Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2). Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA Network, 316(5), 489–490.
Retrieved from https://jamanetwork-
com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st century—Competencies required of future medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200–204. Retrieved from https://search-
proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F9C5B900402CPQ/1?acc
ountid=27965
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The role of hospital managers in quality
and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9). http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 41(5), 447–456, 505. Retrieved from
https://search-proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1617932572/fulltextPDF/1486CC30B3624B3CPQ/1?ac
countid=27965