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Running head: SEARCH STRATEGY 1
Search Strategy
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR 449: Evidence Based Practice
, SEARCH STRATEGY 2
Introduction
Research is so very important when working in healthcare. Research allows all healthcare
professionals to provide the best possible care for their patients. Knowing how to retrieve proper
articles and how to search for them is a very important step when applying best practice research
into the best care possible. Learning how to incorporate best practice is one of the most
important skills a nurse can learn. The goal of learning the best practice is to provide the best
care possible for patients while improving clinical decision making. Research improves and
changes every day and it is important to keep up to date with the new research being found.
When researching the best practice, it expands new knowledge of the researcher and can be
passed down to other staff members. When having good thorough research strategies, health care
professionals will be able to have a wide range of qualitative and quantitative articles to use.
Clinical Question
Falls are the most frequently reported safety incident within the hospitals. Every day
there are so many falls that happen in hospitals that are preventable. The majority of these falls
can be prevented by proper assessment of the patients and learning what their personal needs are.
The PICOT question is as follows: In hospitalized patients over 65 years of age, how effective is
a fall prevention program in comparison to the normal standard of care in decreasing falls and
fall injury rates for the duration of the hospital stay? The focus of the group work is how can
falls be prevented in hospitals. Falls are a significant problem because they can lead to more
complications for the patient. “Fall related injuries are the most common cause of accidental
death in those over the age of 65, resulting in approximately 41 fall related deaths per 100,000
people per year” (User, 2016). This statistic documents this as a huge problem. Sadly, these rates
are moving away from the Healthy People 2010 fall prevention goal. Assessing the patient for
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