Background/ Introduction. A current problem that many nursing units are facing is the lack of report occurring at the bedside. Many hospitals have a policy based on evidence based research in place stating that bedside report is expected among nurses however, this policy is often overlooked for a variety of reasons., In Bayesian statistics, a model's parameters are treated as random variables. One of the central ideas about the Bayesian methods is to combine new information (such as new data) with prior knowledge to get an updated understanding of the parameters ., This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Murray State's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors College Theses by an authorized administrator of Murray State's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact msu.digitalcommons@murraystate.edu. Masthead Logo Link. Masthead Logo Link, digitalcommons.murraystate.edu, , .