It is essential for a person working in healthcare to understand statistical concepts.\u00a0 Statistical analysis helps healthcare providers find correlations between entities.\u00a0 Statistical data helps providers, such as nurses,\u00a0 understand trends in patient care, improve outcomes and develop evidence-based practice (EBP).\u00a0 (Helbig & Ambrose, 2018) EBP is important to nurses all over the world to create guidelines and implementation to improve their skills and knowledge using research-based strategies.\u00a0 Alqahtani et al., 2019)<\/p>\n

I work in an adult Acute Rehabilitation unit.\u00a0 We frequently have patients with severe Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) who have extended hospital stays.\u00a0 Some of our TBI patients stay on our unit for 5-6 weeks so their hospital stays from admission into the ER to discharge can be over two months.\u00a0 These patients have a higher risk of acquiring venous thromboembolisms (VNEs).\u00a0 Statical data can be used in the unit to track and monitor occurrences of TBI patients who acquire VNE or PEs related to immobilization, length of stay, and types of anticoagulants used.\u00a0 \u00a0 (Zhang et al., 2020)<\/p>\n

For some reason, my department does not utilize this type of data on a staff nurse level which is unfortunate but I do plan on being able to create a study on the unit I work at after I take this class and learn more about EBP development.\u00a0 I would assume that I need permission to access files or work with the manager to determine how to obtain and analyze data from our patients.\u00a0 I would be able to use this type of information to determine correlations which can then be used to decrease the occurrence of VNEs\/PEs with TBI patients.<\/p>\n

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