Week 2 705 - Assignment Example

Week 2 705 May 11, Week 2 705 EBP bundles Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) bundles define a collection of evidence-based measures, which forms a single quality indicator, for managing a health condition. An EBP bundle consists of three to five measures that are ordinarily used for managing a condition, but whose application varies across facilities and practitioners. One example of EBP bundles is the ventilator care bundle, a set of measures for prevention and management of ventilator-acquired pneumonia.

The bundle consists of inclination of a patient’s head, pausing sedation everyday to evaluate possibility of weaning, “gastric ulcer prevention,” and “deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis” (Gottwald and Lansdown, 2014, p. 138). EBP bundles link to quality patient outcomes through identifying best practices that can be used for efficient and effective interventions that improve health outcomes. The ventilator care bundle, for example, reduces mortality rates in intensive care units. It has also been associated with reducing incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia and number of days that a patient takes in an ICU.

I would use them in my institution by setting them as guidelines because they guide care personnel into best practices for improved outcomes (Gottwald and Lansdown, 2014). Translational research and EBPTranslational research is a type of research that aims at using evidence-based results for further human research or for improving intervention measures. The research approach focuses on user of research findings, communication of the findings, and transformation of organization for effective implementation of empirical results (Jennings, 2004) for improved delivery of care (Chelsea, 2008).

Translational research is, therefore, similar to EBP because of their research scope of knowledge development that can be used for improving care practices. Translational research, however, focuses on use of developed knowledge while focus of EBP is limited to knowledge development ReferenceChelsea, C. (2008). Translational research: Essential contributions from interpretive nursing science. Research in Nursing and Health 31(4), 381-390. Gottwald, M. and Lansdown, G. (2014). Clinical governance: Improving the quality of healthcare for patients and service users.

Berkshire, UK: McGraw-Hill Education (UK). Jennings, B. (2004). Translational research: Disrupting the status quo. Nursing Outlook 52(1), 66.