COURSE:
NR505: Advanced Research Methods Evidence-Based Practice
Collaboration Café
Revisit the practice-related issue of interest that you identified in the week one discussion posting, and respond to the following:
- Describe the practice-related issue and its impact on the nursing profession and/or healthcare delivery.
- How does this issue influence healthcare safety, quality, and/or health outcomes?
- What nursing intervention would you recommend to improve the issue?
- As you conduct a review of literature to better understand the issue and your proposed intervention, what search terms might be most helpful?
Based upon your responses to the above, develop a PICOT statement that conveys the following elements.
- P-Population and Problem– What is the nursing practice issue or problem and who does it affect?
- I-Intervention– What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply?
- C-Comparison– what is another solution for the problem? (Note that this is typically the current practice, no intervention at all, or alternative solutions.)
- O-Outcome– Very specifically, how will you know that the intervention worked? What will be the indicator of success, and how will that outcome be measured?
- T-Timeframe– Target date for outcome achievement.
Use a sentence format to construct your PICOT statement. Here is an example from the educational field (remember, your PICOT will address a nursing practice issue or problem):
Do kindergarteners experiencing learning disabilities (P) who are given a stress ball to squeeze (I) compared to those who don’t have a stress ball (C) experience improved academic performance in class (O) over a 6 week period (T)?
Problem – learning disabilities impacting stress and academic performance
Population – kindergartners
I – stress ball
C – no stress ball
O – improved academic performance
T – over 6 weeks
SOLUTION
For the week one discussion, the practice-related issue was sepsis.
- Describe the practice-related issue and its impact on the nursing profession and/or healthcare delivery.
- Sepsis is a significant healthcare burden. More than 30 million people worldwide develop sepsis each year (Bruce et al., 2015). There are about 1.6 million sepsis cases in the United States annually (Bruce et al., 2015). About 270,000 people die from sepsis every year.
- How does this issue influence healthcare safety, quality, and/or health outcomes?
In the United States, sepsis accounts for 6% of all hospitalizations and 35% of all deaths in the hospital (Sepsis Alliance, 2018). Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals (Sepsis Alliance, 2018). Every…………………………….$5
