Surgical site infection (SSI) rates have increased significantly at your hospital. As the unit manager, you have been tasked with reviewing the literature and making subsequent recommendations to determine if a chlorhexidine/alcohol combination skin scrub prior to surgery will decrease your SSI rates as compared to your current practice of betadine skin scrub.
For this assignment:
- Create a PICOT question based on the information above. Possible question guides can be found here.
- Research your PICOT question using at least 4 peer-reviewed journals. Sources should be less than 5 years old.
- Create an APA-formatted annotated bibliography of the references you used to research your PICOT question. Use this template.
- Create your PICOT question on a Word document and an annotated bibliography on the provided template. Submit both documents in a single upload.
- The Writing Center. or Purdue OWL have resources to help with APA formatting and the annotated bibliography.
