Prevention of Surgical Infections Clinical Practice Guidelines

Prevention of Surgical Infections Clinical Practice GuidelinesAnalysis and Application of Clinical Practice Guideline: Prevention of Surgical Infections Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are defined as evidence-based documents that are developed to help guide current evidence into the everyday practice of nursing. CPGs play critical roles in guiding evidenced-based practice and contain the recommendations that are based on a systematic review and critical analysis of the literature about a clinical question (Peterson et al., 2014). Peterson et al. (2014) describes evidence-based practice as being ‘informed by research findings, clinical expertise, and patients’ values, and its use can improve patients’ outcome and the purpose of determining the level of evidence and then critiquing the study is to ensure that the evidence is credible, reliable, valid and appropriate for inclusion into nursing practice’. This evidence can then be used to help create a clinical practice guideline. Over 200 million surgeries world-wide are preformed yearly and the prevalence of surgical acquired infections are still way too high (Kim et al., 2015). Surgical site infections are a common cause of nosocomial infections and the patients that develop a surgical site infection are more likely to end up in an intensive care unit. A majority of infections occur because of errors made before and/or after the intended procedure then by mistakes made during the actual procedure itself (Kim et al., 2015). It is of utmost importance to be able to protect the patient Breaking the chain of infection needs to occur in order to prevent infections in the surgical setting. Clinicians need continued training in order to reduce the numbers of acquired surgical infections. Scope and Purpose This purpose of this guideline was to provide standardized recommendations based on scientific literature to encourage the use interventions to reduce complications during surgery forBackground image of page 2PREVENTION OF SURGICAL INFECTIONS 3 surgeons and nurses during the surgical setting and to offer recommendations to improve or avoid adverse events during surgery by providing safety (“National Guideline Clearinghouse | Clinical practice guideline for the patient safety at surg…………………………………….