Part 4. Implications to Nursing Practice & Implication to Patient Outcomes Provide a paragraph summary addressing the topics implications to nursing practice and patient outcomes. This section is NOT another review of the literature or introduction of new topics related to the PICOT question. You may find if helpful to begin each topic with - Nurses need to know … Important patient outcomes include … Example – please note this is an older previous students work and so some references are older than 5 years. Be sure to provide the PICOT question to begin this post. PICOT Question: P=Patient Population I=Intervention C=Comparison O=Outcome T=Time (duration): In patients in the hospital, (P) how does frequently provided patient hand washing (I) compared with patient initiated hand washing (C) affect hospital acquired infection (O) within the hospital stay (T) Implications to Nursing Practice & Patient Outcomes Nurses need to know that they play a significant role in the reduction of hospital acquired infection by ensuring by health care workers and patients wash hands since nurses have the most interactions with patients. Implementing hand hygiene protocol with patients can enhance awareness and decrease healthcare associated infection (HAI). Both nurses and patients need to know that HAI is associated with increased morbidity and mortality as well cost of treatment and length of hospital stay. Nurses and patients also need to know that most HAI is preventable. Gujral (2015) notes that proper hand hygiene is the single most important, simplest, and least expensive means of reducing prevalence of HAI and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Nurse and patient hand washing plays a vital role in decreasing healthcare costs and infections in all settings. References Gujral, H. (2015.) Survey shows importance of hand washing for infection prevention. American Nurse Today, 10 (10), 20. Retrieved from hEp://www.nursingworld.org/AmericanNurseToday .

1. Part 4. Implications to Nursing Practice & Implication to
Patient Outcomes
Provide a paragraph summary addressing the topics implications
to nursing practice and patient outcomes. This section is NOT
another review of the literature or introduction of new topics
related to the PICOT question.
You may find if helpful to begin each topic with -
Nurses need to know …
Important patient outcomes include …
Example
– please note this is an older previous students work and so
some references are older than 5 years.
Be sure to provide the PICOT question to begin this post.
PICOT Question:
P=Patient Population
I=Intervention
C=Comparison
O=Outcome
T=Time (duration):
In patients in the hospital, (P)

2. how does frequently provided patient hand washing (I)
compared with patient initiated hand washing (C)
affect hospital acquired infection (O)
within the hospital stay (T)
Implications to Nursing Practice & Patient Outcomes
Nurses need to know that they play a significant role in the
reduction of hospital acquired infection by ensuring by health
care workers and patients wash hands since nurses have the
most interactions with patients. Implementing hand hygiene
protocol with patients can enhance awareness and decrease
healthcare associated infection (HAI). Both nurses and patients
need to know that HAI is associated with increased morbidity
and mortality as well cost of treatment and length of hospital
stay. Nurses and patients also need to know that most HAI is
preventable. Gujral (2015) notes that proper hand hygiene is the
single most important, simplest, and least expensive means of
reducing prevalence of HAI and the spread of antimicrobial
resistance. Nurse and patient hand washing plays a vital role in
decreasing healthcare costs and infections in all settings.
References
Gujral, H. (2015.) Survey shows importance of hand washing
for infection prevention. American Nurse Today, 10 (10), 20.
Retrieved from
hEp://www.nursingworld.org/AmericanNurseToday