Reference no: EM133728005
Case: Patient Education - Think about this scenario
You are a nurse working in a busy inpatient medical-surgical unit. The patients on your unit are admitted for a wide variety of conditions: renal, GI, dermatologic, etc.
All patients admitted that smoke chronically are given brief counseling by an RN and a self-help brochure about smoking cessation, but no follow-up counseling after that.
You hear your coworkers complaining that they feel like they are wasting their time because they think the patients will resume smoking after discharge.
You decide you want to find out if this minimal contact intervention works in the long term.
P: Consider when choosing your patient/problem
What are the most important characteristics?
Relevant demographic factors can you think about?
What is the setting?
I: Consider for your intervention
What is the main intervention, treatment, diagnostic test, procedure, or exposure?
Think of dosage, frequency, duration, and mode of delivery
C: Consider for your comparison
Inactive control intervention: Placebo, standard care, no treatment
Active control intervention: A different drug, dose, or kind of therapy
O: Consider your outcome
Be specific and make it measurable
It can be something objective or subjective
PICO: Putting it together
Using the Text Entry below
Write your full PICO question for this scenario based on the information provided and your ideas/answers to the PICO:
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