Type your answers to the following questions using complete sentences and correct grammar, spelling and syntax. Click “Save as” and save the file with your last name and assignment, e.g.,”NR449_Research_Database_Smith” Submit to the Research Database basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 5. The guidelines and grading rubric for this assignment may be found in Doc Sharing.
Name: Nicole Felix
Describe briefly your topic of interest (15 possible points): My topic is to determine if nursing staffing is linked to patient outcomes. Hospitals/facilities with low nursing staffing tend to have poorer patient outcomes such as pneumonia, shock, cardiac arrest, and urinary tract infections. Nurse staffing levels are an important issue for nurses as well as a important factor of the quality of nursing care and patient outcomes. I would like to research the effects of nurse to patient ratios on adverse events, morbdity, mortality, and hospital costs.
#1 Database (or collection) (30 possible points):
Title of source: Health Technology Assessments (HTA)
Location of source (URL): http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu/ehost/search/basic?sid=fcebbeac-0f18-4c3b-9c75-f9722938ce1c%40sessionmgr13&vid=2&hid=12
Author, owner or publisher: This database is owned by EBSCO Publishing. It is published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Describe (in your own words) the research database or collection of research including the purpose and the subject matter it covers: This database provides facts and research about healthcare technology assessments from around the world. The research includes data based on medical, social, ethical, and the economic references of healthcare interventions. The goal of this database is to improve healthcare’s quality and the cost by using trials, questionnaires, and evaluating economics. They currently have more than 3,000 abstracts and about 7,000 total records.
Explain how the