NSG 6999 Week 6 Discussion
On the discussion board, using a minimum of two articles that are supporting your PICOT question, submit one paragraph synthesizing the research into clear, concise statements without separately reviewing each of the studies in the paragraph—but by paraphrasing and synthesizing the work that was done.
PICOT:
In adult patients in the emergency department where there is consideration for indwelling urinary catheter placement (P), how does nurse-driven protocols for determining the appropriateness of insertion, continuation or removal (I) versus no protocol (C) affect the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections rates (O) over a six-month period (T)?
