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Assignment: PICOT Worksheet

Using a minimum of 3 scholarly nursing sources, current within 5 years:

Over the course of the next eight weeks, we will be examining concepts related to nursing research and the translation of evidence to practice. To help you better understand the process, you will be identifying a practice issue for nurse practitioners. You will develop a PICOT question associated with the issue, find evidence to support a change in practice, and present your recommendations for change to your peers. This week, we will work on helping you refine your area of interest so that you will be able to develop a concise question for next assignment. You are encouraged to use the area of interest you chose for the project in previous class.

Select an issue in nurse practitioner (NP) practice that is of interest to you and in which you would like to see a practice change occur. Conduct a review of literature to see what is currently known about the topic. In 1-2 paragraphs, describe the scope and relevance of the issue and your recommended change. Provide reference support from at least two outside scholarly sources to support your ideas. Please pick something you can do as a NP in your practice that is patient focused. Your intervention needs to relate to a measurable patient health outcome. Please avoid anything that would require a policy or law change, such as full-practice authority. Burnout and satisfaction surveys also are not appropriate topics as they are not patient centered.

Read the assignment guidelines. Provide answers to the following:

A. Identify and describe one practice-related issue or concern. You may choose to build on the practice issue you identified in PREVIOUS CLASS. Provide support for the issue from scholarly nursing sources current within the last 5 years.

B. Explain why the issue/concern is important to nurse practitioner practice and the issue's impact on health outcomes. Provide support for the importance of the issue from scholarly nursing sources current within the last 5 years.

C. Define each element of your PICOT question in one or two sentences.

1. P-Population and problem (What is the nursing practice concern or problem and whom does it affect?)

2. I-Intervention (What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply?)

3. C-Comparison (What is another solution for the problem? Note that this is typically the current practice, no intervention at all, or alternative solutions.)

4. O-Outcome (Very specifically, how will you know that the intervention worked? How you will measure the outcome?)

5. T-Timeframe (Timeframe involved for the EBP initiative/target date of completion.)

Construct your PICOT question in the standard PICOT question format (narrative) and define each letter separately, such as:

1) P =
2) I =
3) C =
4) O =
5) T =
6) PICOT Question written in full.