Nurs Fpx6030 Assessment 2-1 Problem Statement (Picot) -Capella Unversity

1Problem Statement (PICOT)Claudia AlvarezCapella UnversityNURS FPX6030: MSN Practicum & CapstoneDr. Diana Shaw HoopingarnerMarch, 20232Problem Statement (PICOT)Need StatementAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) statistics, approximately 15million infants are born prematurely every year (Volg et al., 2021). Any preterm infants bornprior to 36-week gestational age and neonates with a wide array of diagnoses require admissionto the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Approximately 2.4 million babies die annuallybefore reaching 28 days of life (Iga, 2022). In the United States, according to the centers fordisease control and prevention (CDC) (2022), there were 5.4 deaths per every 1000 live births in2020. Asphyxia, prematurity, infections, congenital disabilities, and sepsis, the leading causes ofthese neonatal deaths, occur during transportation or hospitalization. However, the NICUhospitalization mortality rate is significantly higher (Cavallin et al., 2022). Also, although only5% of the time constitutes parental presence in hospitalized infants, less than a third of parentsvisit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for six or more consecutive days per week. Otherstudies show that some parents visit roughly four days per week during NICU hospitalization(Weber & Harrison, 2019). Therefore, an effective family-centered care (FCC) and qualityimprovement (QI) initiative would improve the health outcomes of hospitalized neonates andreduce the neonatal mortality rate