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MODULE 4 ACTIVITY

Survival Analysis

Purpose: The purpose of this learning activity is to demonstrate your understanding of survival analysis for measuring nursing phenomena in advanced nursing practice.

Instructions: Submit a one paragraph response to the following: Describe a phenomenon in your current or future clinical practice where a survival analysis could be useful. Include in your description the anticipated time frame that would be needed to measure survival time.

Currently, I work on a medical surgical floor primarily caring for patients post-operatively. Following surgery, it is important to engage the patients in physical therapy and promote their independence. In my current clinical practice, a survival analysis could be useful to study the duration of time until a patient is able to walk independently* after a hip replacement.

For this study, "walking independently" is defined as walking without the assistance of another person regardless of the patient's use of assistive devices such as a walker or cane.

The anticipated time frame would be measured in hours. I chose time to be measured in hours because following hip replacement surgery most patients are able to walk the same day of surgery or post-operatively day one. Therefore, the time frame measured in hours is an appropriate way to display the collected data. I would anticipate the time frame to range from 0 hours post-operatively to 48 hours post-operatively.