Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question

Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question

Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question

  1. Review the elements included in PICOT questions to guide evidence-based nursing practice.
  2. Respond to the questions below using the PICOT Question Worksheet Template.
  3. Using a minimum of 3 scholarly nursing sources, current within 5 years:
    • Identify and describe one practice-related issue or concern. You may choose to build on the practice issue you identified in NR500NP/NR501NP.
    • Explain why the issue/concern is important to nurse practitioner practice and its impact on health outcomes.
    • Describe each element of your PICOT question in one or two sentences, being sure to address all of the following:

 

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      • P-Population and problem– What is the nursing practice concern or problem and whom does it affect?
      • I–Intervention– What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply?
      • C–Comparison– What is another solution for the problem? Note that this is typically the current practice, no intervention at all, or alternative solutions.
      • O–Outcome– Very specifically, how will you know that the intervention worked? Think about how you will measure the outcome.
      • T–Time frame– What is the Timeframe involved for the EBP initiative or the target date of completion?
    • Construct your PICOT question in the standard PICOT question format (narrative) and define each letter separately, such as:
      • P =
      • I =
      • C =
      • O =
      • T =
      • PICOT question written in full =
  1. Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
  2. At the graduate level, we like to see you synthesizing your ideas into your own words. No direct quotes may be used in this worksheet.
  3. Use APA formatting guidelines for references and citations.
  4. Submit your worksheet using the PICOT Worksheet Template as a Word document to the Week 2 Dropbox

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes. Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your ess ay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages. Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Discussion: Shortage of Nursing Picot Question