Instructions
Using the case study provided, respond to the critical thinking questions. Each response should be original (in your own words) and a minimum of 2â3 sentences in length.
Case Study
You are a staff nurse caring for a patient in a critical care unit. The unit policy limits visitors to 10 minutes in the evening hours. You find yourself needing to frequently âbend the rulesâ because some families and their critically ill loved ones want to spend more time together, and they want more flexibility to visit.
A systematic review of both quantitative and qualitative evidence related to visitation in critical care units came to these conclusions:
Flexible visiting hours are preferable to patientsâ families.
Family members want to be close to the patient, speak to the physician every day, and have access to healthcare professionals with information to give them.
Nurses understand that flexible visiting hours can be beneficial. Still, they can impede workflow and increase workload. Nurses want to control the policy.
Hospital administrators should consider the nursesâ beliefs and attitudes when they create visiting policies.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. Given the evidence of visiting hours and the evidence related to the individual and system-level implementation of evidence, what are the key issues related to implementing appropriate visitation policies?
2. What might be key individual barriers to evidence implementation?
3. What are system-level barriers to evidence implementation?
4. What are evidence-based strategies that enhance evidence uptake at both the individual and system levels?
5. How might you design an evidence-implementation strategy to overcome barriers and maximize facilitators of evidence uptake?
6. How important is it to understand the evidence related to enhancing evidence uptake?
7. What evidence needs to be generated to help advance our knowledge toward increasing evidence uptake?
8. How do individual barriers and facilitators interact with system-level barriers and facilitators of evidence uptake?
9. Do you think an individual can use evidence if the system does not support it in any way? Why, or why not?
Submission and Assessment Guidelines
Submit your Microsoft Word document with the questions clearly listed and answered.
Each response should be clear, concise, and use correct grammar. All of the questions MUST be answered in your document.
This activity will be submitted via Turnitin.
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This activity is worth 80 points.
Instructions Using the case study provided, respond to the critical thinking que
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