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PICO Worksheet – Module 2

Purpose:

The purpose of this worksheet assignment, like all assignments in this course, is to help prepare you to be a successful nurse. If the assignments in this course are to challenge you, empower your research, and collectively develop a framework to formulate effective clinical questions and help narrow down your project.

 

Knowledge:

The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the content knowledge that are essential to your success in the course:

Module 2 Outcome #1: Analyze how qualitative findings can be used in evidence-based practice
Module 1 Outcome #4: Formulate a clinical question using the PICO format.

 

Application:

This assignment will also help you become familiar with the following important content application in this discipline:

Identifying a real-world problem in the clinical healthcare setting
Researching evidence-based solutions to the real-world problem in the clinical healthcare setting

 

Task:

Complete the PICO Worksheet by filling in each section of the worksheet (the PICO will serve as the focus of the Evidence-Based Practice Project).
Submit your report in Blackboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PICO Worksheet

(A framework to formulate effective clinical questions.)

 

Name: 

 

Identify a nursing clinical practice problem/issue to address:

 

 

In 5-6 sentences, discuss the significance of the problem: 

 

Identify the focus of the clinical question (check one): 

            ____ Intervention

            ____ Prevention

            ____ Etiology

            ____ Qualitative

 

 

Write out your question: 

Question templates to consider for the type of question noted above: 

 

Intervention:   In___________, what is the effect of ____________on ____________compared with ____________?

 

Prevention:  For __________does the use of_______ reduce the future risk of ________compared with_________? 

 

Etiology:  Are________ who have __________ at__________ risk________ for/of_______ compared with_________?

 

Qualitative:  How do ______________diagnosed with _________________perceive ______________? 

 

Is this a background or foreground questions? Why – explain.

 

Identify the surrogate or keywords/key phrase for each PICO Element and record it in the table below. 

 

PICO Element  Search Terms (e.g., Keywords/Key phrase)
Population:  
Intervention:  
Comparison:  
Outcome:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HEALTH SCIENCE
NURSING
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