Evidence-Based Practice Assignment – Searchable Clinical Questions Form STUDENT NAME: DATE: DIRECTIONS: Please read the Evidence-Based Practice Guideline Rubric located in Doc Sharing for instructions on how to complete this form. 1. CLINICAL QUESTION: Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format. Please type the question here: 2. Identify the PICO (T) Terms: 3. SEARCH: PUBMED/MEDLINE Go to MEDLINE at http://www.pubmed.gov and conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below: Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes 4. SEARCH: EBSCO/CINAHL Go to the Chamberlain Library at http://www.chamberlain.edu/library and enter EBSCO. Conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below: Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes 5. SEARCH: THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE Go to The Joanna Briggs Institute via the CCN Library. Conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below: Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes Evidence-Based Practice Assignment – Searchable Clinical Questions Guidelines with Grading Rubric Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to: a) formulate a PICO (T)-formatted clinical question b) identify key terms for conducting a review of the literature and c) search for relevant evidence in scholarly databases. Course Outcomes Through this assignment the student will demonstrate the ability to: (CO #3)Apply research principles to interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO 9) (CO #4) Analyze data from relevant sources including technology to inform the delivery of care. (PO 4) (CO #5) Analyze the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing. (PO 1) Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5. Total Points Possible: 140 Requirements: Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature based on the PICO (T) elements. Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases: PubMed CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) and The Joanna Briggs Institute database. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form found in Doc Sharing. Although the worksheet is provided you may need to add additional rows to the grid in order to accommodate your search results. Be sure to include all of your steps in the Notes column. Submit the form to the Dropbox by the due date. Preparing the paper 1. In Doc Sharing you will find the Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form. This is the form to be used to submit the assignment. No other paper is required for this assignment. Although this form is provided for this assignment you may need to add additional rows to the grid to accommodate your search results. 2. Below you will find an example of how to complete the form as you are doing each search. 3. The Notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search is undertaken. Be sure to include all of the steps you used. 4. An optimal range of 10–20 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each search. This may require performing a combination of Boolean terms in order to achieve the optimal range. If this is not possible a detailed explanation is to be included in the Notes section. Points will be deducted if you do not perform enough of a search to arrive at the optimal range. Example: PubMed Clinical Question: In patients with muscle spasms is relaxation as good as anti-spasmodic medication in reducing the incidence of muscle spasms?* The PICO (T) elements are: P = patients with muscle spasms I = anti-spasmodic medication C= relaxation O = reducing incidence of muscle spasms Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes 1 Patients with muscle spasms 9576 I searched on the P patients with muscle spasms by typing it in the search field and clicking Search. 2 antispasmodic 42261 I searched on the I antispasmodic by typing it into the search field and clicking Search. 3 relaxation techniques 18003 I clicked Clear and typed relaxation in the search field. CINAHL suggested relaxation techniques so I chose to search on this. 4 muscle spasms 20693 I clicked Clear and typed muscle spasms in the search field and clicked Search. 5 Patients with muscle spasms antispasmodic Relaxation techniques 10 I clicked on Advanced Search and combined Search #1 with Search #2 and Search #3 using the Boolean operator AND. I clicked Search. The Results were 10 abstracts. This is within the optimal range of 10–20 returns so I stopped searching. *This table reports the history of an actual search of this clinical question in PubMed. Category Points % Description Content 25 18% Clinical research question is clearly written in PICO(T) format. Content 25 18% PICO (T) search terms are clearly identified. Content 25 18% A completed search in PubMed/Medline is conducted following guidelines in the tutorial. Content 25 18% A completed search in CINAHL is conducted following guidelines in the tutorial. Content 25 18% A completed search in JOANNA BRIGGS is conducted following guidelines in the instructions. Format & Grammar 15 10% Grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work. Total 140 100 A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. Grading Rubric Assignment Criteria A (100–92%) Outstanding or highest level of performance B (91–84%) Very good or high level of performance C (83–76%) Competent or satisfactory level of performance F (75–0%) Poor or failing or unsatisfactory level of performance Content Possible Points = 125 Points Clinical research question written in PICO (T) format. 25–23 Points 22–21 Points 20–19 Points 18–0 Points Clinical question is clearly written in the PICO (T) format. Clinical question lacks occasional important element or specificity. Clinical question has several instances of inaccuracies and/or is vague. Clinical question has multiple instances of inaccuracies and/or is vague or is missing from paper. Key search terms 25–23 Points 22–21 Points 20–19 Points 18–0 Points Chooses appropriate key search terms for 4 (5) PICO (T) elements Chooses appropriate key search terms for ONLY 3 PICO (T) elements Chooses appropriate key search terms for ONLY 2 PICO (T) elements Does not choose appropriate search terms for PICO (T) elements. Search in PubMed/ MEDLINE 25–23 Points 22–21 Points 20–19 Points 18–0 Points Searches in PubMed following guidelines in tutorial and retrieves an appropriate number of journal articles. Searches in PubMed but only partially follows guidelines in tutorial; however retrieves an appropriate number of scholarly articles. Searches in PubMed but only partially follows guidelines in tutorial and does not retrieve appropriate number of journal articles. Does not search in PubMed for MEDLINE (e.g. uses EBSCO to search MEDLINE or notes on search are missing. Search in EBSCO/CINAHL 25–23 Points 22–21 Points 20–19 Points 18–0 Points Searches in CINAHL following guidelines in tutorial and retrieves an appropriate number of journal articles. Searches in EBSCO/CINAHL but only partially follows guidelines in tutorial; however retrieves an appropriate number of scholarly articles. Searches in EBSCO/CINAHL but only partially follows guidelines in tutorial and does not retrieve an appropriate number of journal articles. Does not search in EBSCO/CINAHL or notes on search are missing. Search in The Joanna Briggs Institute 25–23 Points 22–21 Points 20–19 Points 18–0 Points Searches in The Joanna Briggs Institute database following guidelines in the instructions and retrieves an appropriate number of journal articles. Searches in The Joanna Briggs Institute database but only partially follows guidelines in the instructions; however retrieves an appropriate number of scholarly articles. Searches in The Joanna Briggs Institute database but only partially follows guidelines in the instructions and does not retrieve an appropriate number of journal articles. Does not search in The Joanna Briggs Institute database or notes on search are missing. Content Subtotal _____ of 125 points Format & Grammar Possible Points = 15 Points Rules of grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work. 15–14 Points 13 Points 12–11 Points 10–0 Points Grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with no exceptions. Grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with 1–2 exceptions. Grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with 3–4 exceptions. Grammar spelling word usage and punctuation are not followed with 5 or more errors. Format & Grammar Subtotal _____ of 15 points Total Points _____ of 140 points
