NRS 465 TOPIC 2 DQ 1

Once you have selected a topic for your capstone project, you will need to examine research articles to explore viable solutions. The GCU Library has various resources to support students during this process.

Based on the first letter of your first name, you are assigned the following GCU Library resource:

A-F: GCU Library Nursing and Health Sciences Research Guide

G-L: GCU Library: Find Journal Articles

M-S: GCU Library: What Are Empirical/Research Articles?

T-Z: GCU Library: Capstone and Evidence-Based Projects

Please note: each of these links can be found in the topic Resources.

Describe the resource assigned to you including two examples of how this resource will support your successful completion of the capstone project.

Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include one reference. Refer to “RN-BSN DQ Rubric” and “RN-BSN Participation Rubric,” located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and participation posts, respectively.

Lisa Fleischhacker

Mar 25, 2024, 4:45 PM

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For this assignment, I was assigned to look up how the Grand Canyon University journal articles resource page and how they will support my capstone project. From what I can see, I am able to reduce the number of articles by dates, peer reviewed and what type of source I want to look at. Unfortunately, when I use the keys words “CAUTI” and “HOUDINI” there were not many articles available after 2019. Although it may seem like a con to my research, the GCU library helps me limit my research to what is peer-reviewed instead of giving articles based on opinions and unsupported by scientific research. For example, one article described in detail how data was collected over one month on patients including reason for admission, if they met the HOUDINI criteria and catheter infections (Shammout et al., 2020). When I removed the term “HOUDINI” from the search and combined “CAUTI prevention” and “catheter” I was able to find more journal articles relating to my subject that followed the HOUDINI checklist without using that terminology. For example, Hernandez et al. (2019) published an article discussing using a checklist to make sure a patient met the qualifications of needing a urinary catheter to help reduce the CAUTI rates.

Hernandez, M., King, A., & Stewart, L. (2019). Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention and nurses’ checklist documentation of their indwelling catheter management practices. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 35(1), 29–42. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.36951/ngpxnz.2019.004

Shammout, S., Pavana, T., & Johnson, A. (2020). URINARY CATHETERISATION IN TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDIC PATIENTS…British Geriatrics Society Autumn Meeting, November 6-8, 2019, Leicester, England. Age & Ageing, 49, i18. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ageing/afz187.09