ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation Follow Nurse Daniel as your process mentor in the weekly Illustration section of the lesson. Please do not use any of the Nurse Daniel information for your own topic, nursing intervention, or change project. Nurse Daniel serves as an example only to illustrate the change process. Name: Ruchelle Brown Star Point 1: Discovery (Identify topic and practice issue) Identify the topic and the nursing practice issue related to this topic. (This MUST involve a nursing practice issue.) The topic will be the increase in the cases of surgical infections. Healthcare institutions and professionals go at great lengths in order to ensure that no infections happen after a surgical procedure. In essence, the presence of a surgical infection will render a treatment ineffective and worse lead to a new illness. This means that it is imperative for healthcare professionals and institutions to put in place effective intervention measures. Briefly describe your rationale for your topic selection. Include the scope of the issue/problem. For both healthcare professionals and institutions, a positive patient outcome forms the overall goal for any treatment measure taken. In order to achieve a positive and sustainable patient outcome, there is need to implement all treatment interventions with due regard to the safety of the patient. Surgical infections tend to go against the objective of safeguarding the safety of the patient. In addition, surgical infections can complicate the process of providing treatment to a patient and can even lead to the death of the patient. This means that there is an importance of defining the specific problem, looking for the causes of that problem with the objective of coming up with sustainable and safe solutions addressing the increased cases if surgical infections. Star Point 2: Summary (Evidence to support need for a change) Describe the practice problem in your own words and formulate your PICOT question. Surgical infections emerge when there is a failure to use Chlorhexidine in the manner it has been prescribed in the guidelines. These are guidelines relate to unprofessionalism; pre-operative procedures carelessness; common errors as well as negligence. The disturbing part is that there are few intervention measures in place designed to prevent these infections, which are often as a 2 result of surgical errors and negligence. 2.2019 Update. DLP