Propose a relevant nursing practice problem for an evidence-based practice project. Explain why you selected this topic and how it is relevant to advance nursing practice. Include one research article that demonstrates support for the nursing practice problem.

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Part 1: Propose a relevant nursing practice problem for an evidence-based practice project. Explain why you selected this topic and how it is relevant to advance nursing practice. Include one research article that demonstrates support for the nursing practice problem.

Medical error is a significant phenomenon in nursing practice. More than one million medical errors happen in the USA yearly and have been attributed to 98,000 mortalities per year (Mansour et al., 2020). Later studies by John Hopkins Patient Safety in 2013 highlighted that medical errors have significantly reduced but were relatively high at approximately 250,000 to 440,000 mortalities per year, becoming the third leading cause of death (BMJ, 2016). Medical errors occur across all departments in the Healthcare system.

A cross-sectional self-administered questionnaire study highlighted that medical errors arise from wrong diagnoses, bedsores, prescriptions, clumsiness, and hospitalization infections (Mansour et al., 2020). The topic is controversial since the news media is filled with nurses failing to take responsibility and neglecting corrective and preventive actions towards repeating the error. While it’s acceptable to err, practicing nurses fear victimizations, consequences, and taking responsibility and their action strikes a significant concern and forms my research problem.

Part II: In the table below, describe the population and the intervention. (You will continue drafting the PICOT, completing the shaded areas in Topic 3.)

                                                                         PICOT Question

P                                                Population Medical errors by nurses and doctors are the third most leading cause of Death

I                                                 Intervention Strengthening the procedural steps in patient care resulting in accountability.

C                                               Comparison

O                                              Outcome

T                                               Timeframe
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Problem Statement

References

BMJ. (2016, May 3). Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US. The BMJ. 353 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2139
Mansour, R., Ammar, K., Al-Tabba, A., Arawi, T., Mansour, A., & Al-Hussaini, M. (2020). Disclosure of medical errors: physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) in an oncology center. BMC medical ethics, 21(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00513-2

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