Topic
PICOT QUESTION
Instructions
Purpose: To identify a problem or concern that nursing can change and develop a PICOT question to guide the change project.
Directions: Use the form below to complete the Week 3 Assignment PICOT Evidence Worksheet. This includes filling in the table with information about your research question and your PICOT elements and the second part is filling in the Evidence Worksheet.
Step 1: Select the key PICO terms for searching the evidence. Clearly define your PICOT question. List each element P (problem, population, or problem), I (intervention), C (Comparison with other treatment/current practice), and O (Desired outcome), T (Time Frame). Is the potential solution something for which you (as nurse or student) can find a solution through evidence research? Look in your book for guidelines to developing your PICOT question and also read the required articles.
Step 2: Identify the problem. What have you noticed in your work or school environment that isn’t achieving the desired patient or learning outcomes? What needs to change in nursing, what can you change with the support of evidence in the literature? Describe the problem or practice issue that you want to research. What is your practice area; clinical, education, or administration? (This is NOT where you will list your PICOT question)
Step 3: How was the practice issues identified? How did you come to know this was a problem in your clinical practice? Review the listed concerns and check all that apply.
Step 4: What evidence must be gathered? What sources of reliable information will be helpful for your particular question?
Step 5: What terms will you use in order to make sure that your search is wide enough to obtain required information but narrow enough to keep it focused? How will you narrow your search if needed?
Answer preview
What is the PICOT question?
Can introduction of antibiotics in third and sixth month of pregnancy reduce the chances of pregnancy complications by preventing common kidney infection resulting from Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)?
P- (Patient, population, or problem): Pregnancy women who started attending clinic sessions in, or prior to, three months of pregnancy
I -(Intervention): Offer anti-kidney infection antibiotics on the third and the sixth month to pregnant women within a densely populated state hospital whose rate of child deliveries is on daily basis
C- (Comparison with other treatment/current practice): Compare analytics showing cases of kidney infection complications on pregnant women between the records of those infected in the 12 months prior to the introduction of the antibiotics and 12 months after the introduction of two-session antibiotics for pregnant women in the selected state hospital
O- (Desired outcome): Reduce pregnancy complication cases related to kidney infections for pregnant women
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