Hospital Acquired Diseases or Infections

Hospital Acquired Diseases or Infections

Statement of the Phenomenon of Interest

The phenomenon has been discussed in a very brief and clear manner. The readers of this article can have a better understanding for the article that the article is written on the hospital-acquired infections in healthcare. According to this study, the growing concern for hospital-acquired infections in healthcare has stimulated the development of evidence based practice guidelines. Healthcare institutions across the United States are increasing their focus on the implementation of clinical practice guidelines using current evidence based practice (Aikens, 2003). Adherence to these guidelines by healthcare professionals is expected to improve the quality, equity, and efficiency of patient care.

PICO

In (P) patients suffering from hospital acquired infections, (I) is healthcare institutions are playing (C) key role for (O) decreasing the rates of the infections.

Purpose

The purpose has been very clearly defined in this article. According to the article, the main purpose of the article is to make an analysis on the hospital-acquired infections in healthcare. A multidisciplinary group was organized by the hospital's Infectious Disease (ID) department and included the ID medical department's director and nurse epidemiologist, a critical care intensivist, the critical care nurse educator, the critical care manager and several critical care staff nurses.

Approach

In order to conduct this research, the author has used the quantitative research methodology. The author has use the quantitative research design in this article. He hass also used the descriptive and exploratory research designs in order to prove or reject the hypothesis of the article. The author has used the primary data collection methodology in this article. The data collection methods are very appropriate for this study, because in order to find the Hospital Acquired Diseases or Infections, it is very necessary to go for the primary data collection method ((Fridlund, 1998).

Method

The author has used the quantitative research methodology for this article. In my view it is not enough to use the quantitative study to find the Hospital Acquired Diseases or Infections. In some way, quantitative studies are good to find the accurate data, but it does not provide the complete data. There many limitations of the quantitative research (Denscombe, 2003, p. 89).

The author has used the small-scale study, which means that the sample size was not enough to get the actual data. In order to understand the Hospital Acquired Diseases or Infections, the author should have chosen the chosen the sample on a large scale. Through the large scale study, it becomes easy for the researcher to gather accurate and reliable data.

Quantitative study does not always provide the complete data. The data obtained from the quantitative study is very limited, and is not very broad. In such cases, it is necessary that the author should have used the qualitative study as well. The main disadvantage is that there is no such reliability of the data in qualitative research. While conducting quality research, one has to collect the data which is already published and written (Hyatt, 2004, ...