Identify care standards, practice guidelines, or protocols that may be in place to support your intervention planning (These may come from your organization or the other sources listed in your Summary section in Star Point 2).

Hand-washing before and after dealing with the patient.

Hand-washing using the most effective sanitizing agent

The CDC SSI prevention guideline category IA provides the necessary guidelines for healthcare providers to prevent and reduce surgical infections.

List your stakeholders (by title and not names; include yourself) and describe their roles and responsibilities in the change process (no more than 5). 

Management – responsible for coming up with policies designed to ensure that the patient's safety is guaranteed. Provide the needed environment for professionalism and care by healthcare professionals. 2. 

Physicians and Nurses – this includes surgeons who are directly involved in the surgical procedures and are assisted by the nurses in the surgical site. Both are required to follow the set guidelines and procedures to ensure patient safety.

The patients are being operated on; hence, they need to cooperate with the surgical teams to guarantee their safety fully. This information includes but is not limited to existing infections and allergies.

What is explicitly your nursing role in the change process? Other nursing roles? 

As a nurse, one is directly involved in providing all the needed support and assistance to the physician during a surgical procedure. This means that a nurse should be fully aware of all safety procedures that we must follow. Any discrepancy should be identified and reported.

List your stakeholders by position titles (charge nurse, pharmacist, etc.). Why are the members chosen (stakeholders) critical to your project?

Physician (4) – responsible for ensuring that the utmost levels of professionalism and care are observed during a surgical procedure 

Supervisors (6) – responsible for ensuring that surgical safety guidelines are set as adhered to and followed. This also means providing the staff with the required equipment to perform their duties effectively.

What type of cost analysis will be needed before a trial?  Who needs to be involved with this?

Training will be the primary cost. Seven nurses and nine physicians will undergo training during the trial period. The training will involve the creation of awareness on the subject of surgical infections.
Star Point 4: (Implementation)