Question How does the registered nurse use guided research in the clinical setting? Explore your clinical site and relate one quality improvement (QI) study currently being analyzed. What is benchmarked in the study? What role does the nurse play in the QI study? How does the registered nurse use guided research in the clinical setting?

Question How does the registered nurse use guided research in the clinical setting? Explore your clinical site and relate one quality improvement (QI) study currently being analyzed. What is benchmarked in the study? What role does the nurse play in the QI study? How does the registered nurse use guided research in the clinical setting?

The registered nurse utilizes guided research in the clinical setting to follow laid-out quality standards that guarantee patients the best outcomes. By following guided research, registered nurses can therefore be able to guarantee their patients quality outcomes. Utilizing guided research, a registered nurse is able to make the right clinical decisions and avoid issues such as medical errors (Li et al., 2019). For instance, there’s a high probability that a patient may get misidentified in a healthcare facility that does not use identifiers. On the other hand, the guided research that advocates for the use of two identifiers before providing care, performing a procedure, or administering medication to a patient can play a significant role in helping to prevent the misidentification of a patient.  Guided research helps registered nurses to adhere to certain standards of practice that guarantee the best outcomes for patients (Li et al., 2019).