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The scenario is that you are the University Health Center’s (UHC) Nursing Director (DON). After a recent 3-hour campus rock concert, several students came into the UHC complaining of ringing in their ears or ear ‘numbness.’ After screening their hearing and referring them to an audiologist, you begin surveying the campus with hearing conservation practices in mind. The chronic loud environment is evident in many places: i.e., fitness classes, basketball, and other sports games, band practice room, sports locker rooms, Engineering labs, and, of course, the countless people (students, faculty, and staff) walking/jogging around with personal listening device earbuds. Out in the parking lot, cars with customized mufflers roar as the drivers look for bypasser approval. At a Friday happy hour with friends, you must scream across the table to be heard over the music and bar mixers.
As the DON, you want to determine safe noise levels and raise the awareness that noise-induced hearing loss is irreversible and permanent. First, you must search for evidence in the scholarly literature to inform your next action for practice (or program) change.
Develop these ideas and synthesize them into a problem statement that answers (but is not limited to) the following questions:
What is the problem?
How does it impact you or your University’s population?
What is the significance of the issue?
What is the current practice?
Why is this an important healthcare safety issue to find evidence for?
Sum up the problem with your conclusion. Include how this affects your University’s population.
What is the significance of the issue?
Why is this an important healthcare safety issue to find evidence for?
