Check-In: Research, Practice Problems, and Questions (graded)

Purpose

The purpose of this Check-In assignment is for learners to write a clinical question using the PICOT format.

Carefully Read these Check-In Assignment Preparation Instructions prior to completing the PICOT questionnaire for grading.

Professional nurses rely on research findings to inform practice decisions; they use critical thinking to apply research directly to specific patient care situations.

Think about an independent nursing practice problem you care passionately about and would be interested in searching for evidence.

The problems below should not be used:

*medical/doctor/physician problems such as medications, or medications administration or effects, diagnostics such as EKGs, labs, cardiac catherizations.

*staffing, nurse-to-patient ratios, workforce issues are organizational/system /political/administrative/multi-stakeholder problems which nursing cannot solve independently.

· Review the Week 3 PPE Worksheet assignment and choose a topic area, as the Check-In instructor feedback is to be used to assist you in your PICOT development and thinking in Week 3.

· Choose a significant nursing clinical issue, topic of interest, or practice problem that is important to you.

· Develop your clinical question in the PICO(T) format for your nursing practice problem.

· *To develop your clinical question in the PICO(T) format, use the NR439_Guide for writing PICOT Questions and Examples found in your Week 2 Lesson or access the following link:  NR439_Guide for writing PICOT Questions and ExamplesLinks to an external site.

· Be prepared to identify each PICOT element of your question for the Check-In quiz. You will not be submitting your PICOT question for this Check-In assignment.