Needle Stick Injuries - Hand Hygeine - Nursing Assessment

Hand Hygeine (do nurses follow the 5 steps correctly)

• Time management
• Infection
• Needle stick injuries
• Medication administration
• Patient communication
• Staff communication
• Pain management
• Aseptic Technique
• Bedside handover

PART 1:   Task summary Assessment Task 2 “Literature Review)

This assignment has three sections; a flow chart, a table representation of the included papers and a discussion section outlining the findings of the literature review. Remember to use the marking rubric to guide the assessment development. 

The assignment has 3 parts, a flow chart / table / and discussion 

• The beginning of the assignment needs to include a brief description of how you did the literature review including the inclusion / exclusion criteria. 

• Then paste in a flow chart which is a picture representation of the search procedure. 

• The literature review table clearly outlines the papers in an easy to read format

• The flow chart together with the table equals approx 500 words 

• The final section is the discussion which accounts for 1500 words. This is where you outline the papers that you found, critique the papers and discuss the findings as related to your topic. 

In this assessment task students are instructed to conduct a review of the literature using a systematic approach.

There will be three sections to this assessment task:

1.creation of a flow chart that represents how the literature search was conducted including the inclusion / exclusion criteria,

2.the final selected papers represented in a table format highlighting the following aspects; author/year/country, methodology, participants, key findings,

3. a detailed description of the key findings of the selected papers. Word limit is 2000 words. 

• Purpose:  To develop and demonstrate skills related to reviewing nursing literature using a systematic approach.

• Description:  Students will be instructed to choose a research topic of interest (see above)and conduct a review of the literature. Students are required to complete a written piece of work with the following headings:

• Search strategy,

• Table 1 Flow chart of literature search,

• Table 2 Selected literature Summary,

• Key findings,

• Reference list