PICOT Question Worksheet
Name:
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 NR500NP/NR501NP. 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.
- 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? How you will measure the outcome?)
- 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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