Application of the AACN DNP EssentialScientific Underpinnings for Practice

The work conducted throughout the study illuminates the key importance of communicational accuracy and precision in a healthcare system, where medical errors can have a dire impact on patients’ safety and wellbeing. The project adheres to the fundamental scientific underpinning of practice because it focuses on governing the optimal function of human beings, who receive the care they need. In other words, the use of the SBAR tool provides a correct set of frameworks for communication, which was highlighted with the CEX evaluation method. The implementation of SBAR provides a positive change in the work safety environment benefiting and improving outcomes among patients.

Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking

Organizational and systems guidance is vital for DNP graduates to advance patient and care outcomes. The project showed a drastic increase in accuracy and precision of conveyed information in regards to nurse handoff. The latter, in turn, significantly reduced the rate of errors taking place due to poor communicative practices. In other words, it is evident that SBAR removes the points of inaccurate communication and information transfer. The use of the SBAR algorithm to reduce medication errors in the shock trauma unit highlighted an excellent method that would ultimately ensure patient safety. Focusing attention and discussing an alternative in which positive changes can occur helped to translate the confirmed theory into clinical practice. Therefore, the project succeeded at developing and evaluating a highly effective strategy in order to manage the ethical issue in the healthcare organization and patient care. The project adheres to the second essential of the DNP Essentials.

Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice

The implementation of SBAR at the target healthcare organization adheres to the third essential of the DNP Essentials as well. The main reason is that the study succeeded at evaluating outcomes of practices due to the use of a reliable evaluative tool, which is CEX. The overall impact of the project is direct, where it substantially improves the overall safety of patient-centered care. Nurses communicating with the use of SBAR are less likely to make medical errors, which is why the findings are relevant in order to be able to develop improved practice protocols and frameworks of communication practices in the clinical setting.