It is no doubt that healthcare providers, clinicians, and nurses must utilize their skills that they draw from various practice-based researches that has been carried out to improve health outcomes of their patients. However, they have underutilized some interventions that have been proven or demonstrated to be effective and efficient in improving the health outcomes of their patients (Leeman & Sandelowski 2012). Therefore, there is more need to utilize or exploit the qualitative inquiries to attain practice-based evidence that comes from practices and experiences of nurses and healthcare providers to achieve more evidence-based practice that is desired (Leeman & Sandelowski 2012).
Aording to Leeman and Sandelowski (2012), in as much as qualitative inquiry has been very instrumental “in incorporating more practice-based evidence into the evidence base for nursing practice” there should be more effort that should be put in explaining the importance of effectively communicating evidence-based practice procedures and processes to the nurses and the healthcare providers. In improving healthcare quality, the qualitative analysis and inquiry must seek to answer and critique some questions which may arise from the research. Unlike quantitative analysis which tends to respond to objective questions and testing theory, this approach will seek to develop theory and scrutinize subjective human experience by utilizing non-statistical analytical methods (Ingham-Bloomfield 2014).
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) have tremendously reduced in the recent past. However, some cases have been reported in care centers and intensive care units, and they are more likely to prolong hospital stay or leading to other infections. A safe and nontoxic method should be used when considering the best method to reduce the CLABSIs by surveillance of the patient at any location of the infection. The nurses or healthcare provider must adhere to the set guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related (ICR) infections. Novel prevention strategies such as the procedures to decrease central-line colonization should also be explored because they have proved to be instrumental. To ensure patient safety and in reducing the chances of the infections, the nurses and other (Leeman & Sandelowski 2012) practitioners should use qualitative inquiry in determining the best method to use in preventing microbial growth and CLABSIs.
References
Ingham-Broomfield, B. (2014). A Nurses’ Guide to Quantitative Research. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 32(2), 34-40.
Leeman, J. & Sandelowski M. (2012). Practice-Based Evidence and Qualitative Inquiry. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 44(2), 171-179.
