Topic: Diabetes Management and Education
General instructions
- Download the Week 2 PICOT Worksheet TemplateLinks to an external site. to complete this assignment. Use of this template is required. If the template is not used, a 10% deduction will be applied. See the rubric. Save the template and include your name in the file name.
- Complete the PICOT Worksheet Template using the scenario provided in the Week 1 announcements.
- Follow APA grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation rules consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
- Use APA in-text citations and complete references to support your writing.
- Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric).
- Practice Problem
- Using the practice problem identified in the Week 1 discussion, summarize your practice problem in 2-3 sentences.
- Explain why the issue/concern is important to nurse practitioner practice.
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- PICOT Elements: Discuss each of the following PICOT elements in one or two sentences.
- P-Population:
- What is the nursing practice concern or problem and whom does it affect? Be specific and narrow down your population. The population should be client-focused.
- I–Intervention:
- What evidence-based solution for the problem would you like to apply?
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- C–Comparison:
- What is another solution to the problem? This is typically the current practice, an alternative solution, or no intervention.
- O–Outcome:
- How will you know the intervention worked?
- How will you measure the outcome?
- The outcome must be measurable from a baseline.
- T–Timeframe:
- What is the timeframe or the target completion date?
- P-Population:
- PICOT Question: Write a PICOT question using standard formatting: In _____ (P), how does _____ (I) compared to _____ (C) affect _____ (O) within _____ (T)?
- Use the standard PICOT format and label each element.
- P-Population
- I-Intervention
- C-Comparison
- O-Outcome
- T-Timeframe
- Use the standard PICOT format and label each element.
- Keywords: Identify keywords for each element of the PICOT question that could be used to support a literature search. Use Appendix B from Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt (2023) for guidance.
- P =
- I =
- C =
- O =
- T =
