NRS 433V Topic 2 Assignment Rough Draft Qualitative Research Critique and Ethical Considerations. Grand Canyon

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common healthcare-associated infection (HAI) that continues to affect the quality of patient health care. SSIs contribute to prolonged hospital stays, reduced quality of life, increased mortality, additional cost for patients and their family, and rising health care cost (Sickder. Wanchai, Hunsa, & Nongkran, 2017). Nurses play a major role and initiate continuum of care in order to prevent surgical site infections. Risk factors, such as improper skin preparation and hand hygiene, can be modified and improved to prevent SSIs. Other procedure-related risk factors that contribute to SSIs include inappropriate preoperative shaving, inadequate preoperative showering, inadequate patient skin preparation, poor hand hygiene practices, inadequacy of prophylactic antibiotics used, and inappropriate dressing techniques (Sickder. Wanchai, Hunsa, & Nongkran, 2017).Sickder. Wanchai, Hunsa, & Nongkran (2017) recommends that SSIs can be prevented with proper adherence to surgical site infection preventive practices in aspects of preoperative shaving; prophylactic antibiotic administration; and hand hygiene