Identify a clinical problem in your area of clinical interest. Discuss a gap in the current research literature that you can identify specific to your clinical problem.

Identify a clinical problem in your area of clinical interest. Discuss a gap in the current research literature that you can identify specific to your clinical problem. Think about variables you will need to investigate to fill the gap in knowledge share with your group.
For example (this is just an example), increased CAUTI in critical care is a clinical problem you are familiar with. You hypothesize that silver tip catheters decrease the incidence of CAUTIs in critical care. You as the researcher would like to investigate if this reduction in CAUTI can be attributed to silver tip catheters, but you are unable to find this in the literature. You develop a research problem stating this gap in the literature; Does the use of silver tip catheters in critical care units decrease the incidence of CAUTIS? The target population would be patients in critical care units with catheters. The variables include CAUTI and silver tip catheters. The setting is critical care.
To receive full credit, your original post should include all elements requested in the prompt (prompt may have multiple parts).
Responses to the prompt should be made directly in the discussion forum.
All posts should be substantive and contribute to the understanding of the topic.
Must include at least one citation related to your topic.
Take note:
This topic will be developed throughout the course. It can be adjusted as needed. Please keep this in mind as you think of a topic. Choose something that will have quantitative, current research available to back up your identified problem. Literature published within the past 5 years is considered current.
Support your discussion board post with a current professional journal source reference and citation.
*** In Week 4, youll be searching for quantitative articles supporting your identified topic. There is more detail to come, but I wanted to give you the big picture of how assignments relate week to week.

NOTE and reminder: The required source for APA is the 7th edition of the APA manual.

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