Formulating PICOT questions related to Nursing research
Description
PICOT questions are used by researchers to focus research questions and develop an efficient literature search strategy.You will create 3 PICOT questions to search for evidence for your individual quantitative appraisal and group review of literature paper.Be sure to develop questions about topics that interest you. Formulating PICOT questions related to Nursing research
PICOT Questions
Write 3 PICOT questions related to nursing. Use PICOT templates in the EBP Step by Step 3 article in Brightspace to create your questions.
Identify the PICOT elements for each question.
This assignment will be completed individually.
PICOT questions are used by researchers to focus research questions and develop an efficient literature search strategy. You will create 3 PICOT questions to search for evidence for your individual quantitative appraisal and group review of literature paper. Be sure to develop questions about topics that interest you.
PICOT Questions
• Write 3 PICOT questions related to nursing. Use PICOT templates in the EBP Step by Step 3 article in Brightspace to create your questions.
• Identify the PICOT elements for each question.
Search Strategy and Execution
• Develop a search strategy using at least 3 keywords, 1 synonym, and 1 MeSH term for your PICOT questions.
• Using any one of your three PICOT questions and the search strategy for it, locate 4 articles that help answer it.
o Be sure that you choose primary source quantitative research articles. (Check for data analysis using numbers and the IMRaD format.)
o The population studied, issues/intervention of interest, and outcomes measured in the article should match the P, I, and C of your PICOT question.
o No article can be older than 2014.
• Obtain pdfs of each of the four articles you selected. Formulating PICOT questions related to Nursing research
Submitting Your Results
• On a Word document, write each PICOT question with elements identified and the search terms for each.
• Highlight the PICOT question for which you selected articles.
• Provide APA references for your selected articles.
• See the example at the end of this document for suggested formatting. You may use it as a template.
• Name each document as follows:
o Lastname PICOT
o Lastnamearticle 1
o Lastnamearticle 2
o Lastnamearticle 3
o Lastname article 4
• Drop all five documents (Word document and pdfs of the articles) to the assignment submission folder by the deadline. Formulating PICOT questions related to Nursing research