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Course Project Milestone #1:PICOT & Literature Review Worksheet
PICOT Worksheet
To identify a problem or concern that nursing can change and select key words for a literature search.
Directions:Use the form below to complete the PICOT assignment in Milestone #1. This includes filling in the table with information about your research question and your PICO (T) elements, as well as answering the Search Technique questions.
Identify the Problem.The nurses have problem communicating with the patient and the doctors.
Identify a potential solution. There can be training and motivation programs for nurses to help them interact and communicate with patients with confidence.
Step 3:Create your research question.Why nurses lack confidence in communication with subjects i.e. The patients and their families and bosses i.e. The doctors dealing the case?
Step 4:Select the key PICOT terms for searching the evidence.The issue of developing communication confidence in nurses can be based on PICOT search terms:
P = Patient or Subject. In this case nurses dealing patients
I = Intervention is to motivate nurses using training or simple interactive sessions
C= Comparison of gains of presence and absence of confidence in communication
O = Outcome is better communication between patient, nurse and doctor
T = Time for intervention can be any time before the nurses are finally put in duty to serve patients.
Research question:
Why nurses lack confidence in communication with subjects i.e. The patients and their families and bosses i.e. The doctors dealing the case?
Focus of the question:
Improving nurses' communication confidence
PICO (T) Elements
P = Patients(s) or problem
Nurses
The nurses are the subject and 'patient' in this case since they have the problem in effective communication between doctors and patients. They have lack of confidence thus they often miss important parts of messages or misinterpret that may lead to disasters.
I = Intervention underConsideration
The nurses need to...
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