PICOT WORKSHEET

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

Please read the assignment guidelines and rubric. Provide answers to the following:  

1) 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.

2) 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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:  

· P =  

· I =  

· C =  

· O =  

· T =  

· PICOT Question written in full:  

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