After reviewing the research articles and discovering nosocomial CLABSIs are an issue in many areas of nursing care, it is evident nurses need further education on this matter. It would also be beneficial to establish a quality assurance change plan and establish set guidelines for staff to follow when inserting, and caring, for CLs. Continuing education is always an advantage in nursing. Keeping current with evidence-based practices and research, ensures nurses are up to date on the current literature allowing them to provide quality, safe patient care. The research conducted in these articles highlighted the fact that educating staff led to improved patient outcomes in relation to nosocomial CLABSIs. This is a small change that can have a huge impact and would be advantageous to providing quality patient care by decreasing the risk of developing CLABSIs in patients across all nursing care areas of practice.
Change comes with disadvantages and challenges which can be difficult to overcome. People are creatures of habit and often find it difficult to adapt to new methods of doing things. Implementing a new change also requires time to research the best policy, time to educate staff, cost to retrain staff, and possibly cost for new equipment needed to implement the change. In medicine things are always changing and evolving as research and technology brings new ways of providing care. How leadership, and staff, embraces change determines its advantages, and disadvantages, to providing healthcare. If implementing a quality assurance change plan will lead to safe, positive patient outcomes then the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.
There are many possible areas in nursing practice where implementing a quality ...
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... While more research is needed to establish the cause of CLABSIs, and best care practices of CLs, there are some quality assurance improvement changes that can be implemented now. Utilizing evidence-based research, a quality assurance change plan can be implemented to decrease the risk of nosocomial CLABSIs. Nursing staff must be properly educated on the new standard of care, adequate training must be given to the staff, proper devices must be on hand, and evaluation of the procedure is needed to ensure the best patient outcome. Nursing leadership will play a major role in advocating for these changes. With the proper guidance, education, and tools nurses will be able to implement the quality assurance change plan set forth. This will lead to a positive patient outcome, decreasing morbidity, mortality and health care costs relating to nosocomial CLABSIs.