PICOT question: For healthcare workers, does hand washing reduce the amount hospital acquired infections compared to hand sanitizer?

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 Discipline: Nursing
Using the PICO, you formulated in discussion board # 1 write a 2–3-page literature review on your topic using the 4-peer reviewed nursing research journal articles.The articles must be research studies atleast 2 of the articles must be authored by nurses and published in the last 5 years.  No biological or animal studies are allowed. No systematic reviews or meta analysis may be used. 
The requirements for the paper are: 
  1. Based on the peer and faculty feedback on your PICO question revise your PICO and write a short paper, your paper must be in APA format and include a Title page per APA format. It is your responsibility to make sure that you select 4 peer reviewed reseach studies.
  2. Include the following as sub heads. 
    1. Background and Significance (why is this topic important? how prevalaent is this topic? What are the statistics on this topic?)
    2. PICOT question
    3. Literature Review 
      1. A brief review of each study. Your paper will synthesize the 4 articles you have chosen and add the information to follow:
        1. Purpose (discuss the purpose of the study it is stated upfront in each reearch article, aldo add why it is important in the context of your PICO)
        2. Sample size (how many participants?)
        3. Recruitment criteria for participants (Inclusion and exclusion criteria)
        4. Ethics, IRB (what do the researhers say about how they adhered to reseach ethics? A statement about what they mentioned  about IRB is sufficient )
    4.     Keep in mind that it is not the study that conducted the research but the researchers/authors so please cite the authors, and do not make statements such as the study found XXX, it is the author who found XXX
          Cite the studies/authors (when in doubt cite). The title of the article is not to be mentioned in the body of the paper, it is to be placed only in the reference page. In the body of the paper, you will only cite the authors/researchers, for example Lobiondo-Wood, (2022).
    5. Conclusion (discuss similarities and dissimilarities of the 4 studies)
  3. APA format, correct grammar and spelling
  4. Reference page  

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