NR 449
Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic
Chamberlain University College of Nursing
NR 449: Evidence-Based Practice
Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic- Clinical Question
As a member of Group 1, the topic that will be discussed within this paper is Patient
Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic. Patient safety ranks at the top of the list
and continues to be an issue in the hospital setting. During a pandemic, patient safety is a major
priority and safety can be viewed as more than just preventing the spread of infection.
Compromised patient safety comes in many different shapes and forms in a hospital setting such
as lack of trust in healthcare team members, burnout among healthcare team members, or lack of
personal protective equipment (PPE). Our group’s focus is on how standard precautions impact
patient safety during a pandemic. Taking the issues that has been previously stated nearly fifty
percent of them is preventable (World Health Organization, 2019). As a group, to determine our
focus for our topic we formulated a PICOT question. The PICOT components are, P stands for
the Problem or Population, I is for Intervention, C is for Comparison, O is for Outcome/s, and T
is for Time Frame. Our PICOT question that we formulated is, In the hospital setting, is there
evidence that patient safety is impacted during a pandemic? The purpose of this paper is to
provide insight on how the levels of evidence, research strategy, and articles support our group’s
PICOT question.
Levels of Evidence
The levels of evidence is a tool that determines the strength of evidence used to support a
claim (Houser, 2018). The levels of evidence that I believe to be applicable to our group’s
PICOT question is Level IV. According to Houser (2018), Level IV focuses on evidence from
consolidative reviews and some peer-reviews that contain support from clinical studies (p. 24).
Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic
Chamberlain University College of Nursing
NR 449: Evidence-Based Practice
Patient Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic- Clinical Question
As a member of Group 1, the topic that will be discussed within this paper is Patient
Safety in the Hospitalized Setting During a Pandemic. Patient safety ranks at the top of the list
and continues to be an issue in the hospital setting. During a pandemic, patient safety is a major
priority and safety can be viewed as more than just preventing the spread of infection.
Compromised patient safety comes in many different shapes and forms in a hospital setting such
as lack of trust in healthcare team members, burnout among healthcare team members, or lack of
personal protective equipment (PPE). Our group’s focus is on how standard precautions impact
patient safety during a pandemic. Taking the issues that has been previously stated nearly fifty
percent of them is preventable (World Health Organization, 2019). As a group, to determine our
focus for our topic we formulated a PICOT question. The PICOT components are, P stands for
the Problem or Population, I is for Intervention, C is for Comparison, O is for Outcome/s, and T
is for Time Frame. Our PICOT question that we formulated is, In the hospital setting, is there
evidence that patient safety is impacted during a pandemic? The purpose of this paper is to
provide insight on how the levels of evidence, research strategy, and articles support our group’s
PICOT question.
Levels of Evidence
The levels of evidence is a tool that determines the strength of evidence used to support a
claim (Houser, 2018). The levels of evidence that I believe to be applicable to our group’s
PICOT question is Level IV. According to Houser (2018), Level IV focuses on evidence from
consolidative reviews and some peer-reviews that contain support from clinical studies (p. 24).
