Week 2 Project
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your understanding of how to write a PICOT question based on a clinical scenario. Since there are several types of PICOT questions, first determining what you want to know will help you decide on the specific PICOT format. Providing rationales for choosing specific words versus other options as well as how the wording will sufficiently focus your search for evidence will help you write a searchable question.
For this week’s assignment, you will be assigned a different scenario than the one provided for your discussion question. In a 2- to 3-page paper formatted in APA style, respond to the following:
Explaining why the words you chose are the best to drive the literature search
Listing other words you considered but rejected and why this was done
Scenario 2
You have recently joined the Community Assistance Program (CAP), a group of volunteers with your
community’s fire department in the 40’s and older “retirement community” where you live. The purpose
of this group is to help the loved ones while the paramedics are caring for the ill person. Even though
you are a nurse practitioner working part time in private internal medicine practice, those skills are not
needed in this group. Your role is to drive the loved one to the hospital if they are too nervous to drive
or help in any other way.
Recently you met with the health professions subgroup of CAP, composed of retired nurses (RNs),
physical therapists (PTs), and one occupational therapist (OT), to discuss what more could be done to
help your community. The subject came up regarding the number of paramedic calls that were due to
someone falling in the home. One member had reviewed the log and determined that over one third of
the calls were due to falls. Often these calls are to the same home because no intervention typically
results unless the patient is transported to the hospital due to injury. Then, often nothing further is
done. Because of this, your discussion turns to what can be done to prevent these falls with the limited
resources available. The PT’s recognize the importance of fall risk assessment, but other than impacting
those who actually called 911 due to a fall, identifying those in need of prevention would be difficult to
determine. You asked about exercise programs and if any evidence existed that suggested regular
exercise would result in preventing falls. The PTs agreed is must, but they were unaware of any actual
evidence from research studies. The group decides to approach this from an evidence-based
perspective. You start to work on the PICOT question.
Although you have no funds for the project, many resources are already available. Your community
includes 4000 homes and is divided into five sub-communities and all have beautiful facilities, such as
club houses with rooms suitable for exercise, restaurants, large swimming pools, and paved walking
paths. While anyone over 40 years of age can purchase a home in the community, most residents are
over age 65, with many in their 80’s and 90’s. Most live independently and care for their own homes.
The conversation about impacting this problem has made everyone in the health professions subgroup
excited. The consensus seems to be that others can be recruited to help to make a difference with
regard to decreasing falls in the home. First, you must find the evidence.
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Evidence, Effectiveness, and Clinical Quality
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Week 2
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Week Two Submission Project: Writing a PICOT. The scenario is in the week two project assignment. Click on the link to reveal the scenario regarding: Falls prevention program for the elderly community. |
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Introduction: (This is not a heading). The first paragraph in a paper is always the introduction. The title of the paper goes on the first line of the second page, not in bold print.
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Total points |
5 |
Your Points 5 |
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Background question |
20 |
20 |
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Type of PICOT: Intervention, Diagnosis, Prognosis/ Prediction, or Meaning Explain why you chose the type of PICOT |
10 |
10 |
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Foreground question (PICOT) |
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PICOT components listed separately and described. For example: (P) Population: elderly residents > 65 years old in the community |
30 |
30 |
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Conclusion |
5 |
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APA Format |
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Comments |
100 |
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