e. Contribute to quality improvement and population health by embracing change and innovation through evidence-based nursing and interprofessional collaboration.
Change is critical and continual in the health care field. Leaders create change. Leaders, especially nurse educators, must know how to encourage collaboration among health care professionals and be the role-model and change others inspire from in order to learn and grow themselves and as an organization. Nurse educators have a responsibility to instill collaborative factors, such as empowerment, teamwork, and intelligence in their students to instill leadership qualities that will continue to impact health care change in the future. Rapid changes are occurring in health care and technology, resulting in nursing professionals in advanced roles needing to refocus nursing education on the community and a multidisciplinary practice model. The following artifact will reflect on how change can affect nursing practice and develop them as leaders to improve healthcare.
This project was a research critical appraisal that examined the use of the ventilator bundle as compared to not using the ventilator bundle and how it affects the rate of development of ventilator-associated pneumonias in intubated patients in the Intensive Care Units. I learned that the ventilator bundle consists of many different interventions that all individually and as a unit have significantly shown results of VAP reductions in the studied population. I learned that it will take compliance of the nursing staff and adherence to the protocol to have an effect at reducing VAPs. The adherence is vital and teaching the nurses and motivating them to implement the ventilator bundle and change their practice will be key to success. All staff will need to be trained on standard practices and continuous frequent measurement and feedback will need to be implemented. This would need to be an organizational approach with the nursing profession as a key unit, but ultimately all disciplines need to be involved in order for it to be successful. During completion of this project, I learned about the national guidelines and level of evidence that I will continue to use in the future when researching the most up-to-date procedures and guidelines for evidence-based, high quality care.