N 375 Assignment: Research and Evidence-based Practice

N 375 Assignment: Research and Evidence-based Practice

N 375 Assignment: Research and Evidence-based Practice

Evidence-based Project Assignment Part 1

PICOt Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help you formalize and organize your clinical question/problem statement into a PICO(t) format.  PICO(t) stands for:

P = Patient, population, predicament or problem

I = Intervention, exposure, test or other agent

C = Comparison intervention, exposure, test, condition (if relevant)

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O = Outcomes of clinical importance

t = Time (when relevant)

To begin the evidence-based project assignment, you need to identify a practice issue that is problematic for practitioners and/or service users.  Try to find something in which all members of the group have an interest.

Working as a team, using your book and library resources provide comprehensive answers to the following questions:

1.Write a short paragraph (several sentences) about the practice issue.  Why is this a problem?  (Please include citations in your response).

• POINTS)

2.In a few sentences, provide a description of your idea for an evidence-based practice change.

• POINTS)

3.Which aspects of health care practice will be impacted by your project? (Check all that apply)

(1 POINT)

Administration            _______                      Informatics      ________

Clinical                        _______                      Policy               ________

Education                    _______                      Other               ________ (state)

4.What are the PICO(t) elements? And state your PICO(t) as a question. (3 POINTS)

Population:

Intervention:

Comparison:

Outcome:

Time:

PICO(t) question:

5.Which databases do you plan to use and why? (2 POINTS)

6.Identify the search terms you will use to identify articles for your project.  Use the Database PICO(T) Search Strategy Worksheet (see assignment guidelines) and submit this with your PICOt worksheet. (2 POINTS)

7. Identify limits (i.e. inclusion and exclusion criteria) for your search (e.g. language, article type, time period). (1 POINT)
8. List at least three research articles that you have found so far that relate to your topic (these must be presented in APA format 7^th edition). (3 POINTS)

1.

2.

3.

9. Imagine you were trying to implement this project in practice. What challenges do you anticipate in developing your evidence based project? Identify a minimum of two challenges for full points. (2 POINTS)

10.How will you address each of these challenges? (2 POINTS)

PLEASE LIST NAMES OF GROUP MEMBERS HERE:

TOTAL POINTS =   /20

Adapted from Miller, S. (2001) PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy, National Center for Dental Hygiene Research.  Retrieved from http://www.usc.edu/hsc/ebnet/ebframe/PICO%20Worksheet%20SS.pdf (accessed 12.29.14)