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Chamberlain College of Nursing NR439 PPE Worksheet
Name:
Date:
Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet (Based on Wk. 2 Check-In PICOT
)
Criteria
Clinical Nursing Practice Problem
Select and identify
ONLY
one
quality
or safety clinical priority area from the assignment guidelines practice scenario. Summarize
why you
believe the nursing practice problem/issue is the most important. Summarize your
rationale (why) for choosing the problem.
Clinical Nursing
PICOT Question
Using the
NR439 Guide for Writing PICOT Questions and Examples located in the assignment guidelines,
write out
your PICOT question.
Include the PICOT letters in your question.
Use the instructor feedback from the Week 2 Check-In to develop your question.
Among Neutropenic Patients in a BMT Unit the use a scrubbing device with Clorhexidine on the CVAD ports compared with the use alcohol pads decrease the incidence of CLABSI over a month.
Define PICOT Elements
Define each of the PICOT elements from your question above.
Use the instructor feedback from the Week 2 Check-In.
P- (Patient population/patients of interest): Neutropenic Patients
I- (Intervention): Using a scrubbing device with Clorhexidine on the CVAD ports.
C- (Comparison): Using alcohol pads.
O- (Measurable outcome): Incidence of CLABSI.
T- (Time frame in months): One month.
Evidence Retrieval Process and Summary
Using
only the Chamberlain University Library:
(
1
) Locate evidence that is relevant to your chosen nursing practice problem. Explain how you believe the evidence is relevant to your chosen nursing practice problem.
(2) Explain
why you chose the evidence
(3) Provides a
complete APA reference to the evidence
(must include authors, year, title of the evidence, title of the resource)
(4) Evidence must be published within the last
10 years
(5) Provides the permalink
APA Reference and permalink:
Implications of the Evidence
Summarize what you learned from the evidence. Summarize why you believe the nursing evidence-based practice committee should focus their next research project on the nursing practice problem.
Evidence Search Terms
Identify 4 (or more) relevant searchable terms you used for your search for evidence.
Evidence Search
Strategies
Select 4 (or more) relevant search strategies you used to narrow/limit your search for
evidence.
____ Full text
____ Boolean Operators/Phrase
____ Selected publication dates within last 10 years
____ Subject, title, or author search box
____ Truncation (used an asterisk * at the beginning or end of a word)
____ Academic or scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals
____ Quotation marks for key words
____ Selected key terms from PICOT question
____ Others: (list below): ____________________________________________
NR439 PPE Worksheet 11.22 DLP
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