Coming up with a PICCO topic???

[gfoster6993]

I was just wondering if any of you guys could head

me in the right direction with a good cost effective PICCO topic. I am a first

year RN student, and the instructors would like to see how far we can take this.

I turned in a "rough" draft of an idea, but unfortunetly it wasn't a good idea.

I did clinicals this past week in the ED department and realized that they only

had one med room per each "huge" section of the ED (there were 4 diffferent

sections). I came up with the thought that if they could install at least 1

Pixes station at each nursing station it could save time for the nurses to have

to run to this one med room to draw up meds in an emergency situation.....time

saved is cost saved....also say a nurse got a stat order for Haldol so he/she

runs to the med room pulls up the med comes back out only to realize that the

pt. is allergic. Then this medication is wasted. If there could be more Pixes

near the charts, near the computers, near the doctors, this could save wasted

supplies which in turn saves money. But like I said unless I am totally thinking

about this in the wrong way, I don't know what or how to do this. Any ideas

would be greatfully appreciated. Maybe I just need this PICCO concept explained

in greater detail to me. Thanks so much for any info!!

[LadyinScrubs, ASN, RN]

I was just wondering if any of you guys could head

me in the right direction with a good cost effective PICCO topic. I am a first

year RN student, and the instructors would like to see how far we can take this.

I turned in a "rough" draft of an idea, but unfortunetly it wasn't a good idea.

I did clinicals this past week in the ED department and realized that they only

had one med room per each "huge" section of the ED (there were 4 diffferent

sections). I came up with the thought that if they could install at least 1

Pixes station at each nursing station it could save time for the nurses to have

to run to this one med room to draw up meds in an emergency situation.....time

saved is cost saved....also say a nurse got a stat order for Haldol so he/she

runs to the med room pulls up the med comes back out only to realize that the

pt. is allergic. Then this medication is wasted. If there could be more Pixes

near the charts, near the computers, near the doctors, this could save wasted

supplies which in turn saves money. But like I said unless I am totally thinking

about this in the wrong way, I don't know what or how to do this. Any ideas

would be greatfully appreciated. Maybe I just need this PICCO concept explained

in greater detail to me. Thanks so much for any info!!

PICO or PICCO is a way to organize your research. Do a search on the initials PICCO/PICO and your search should explain what it means, i.e.,

P = population you are going to study.

I = intervention

C = control

O = outcome

Let me understand what you are saying: The present facility has one med room in the "huge" section of the ED. You wonder if installing additional med rooms or med stations would do what? Increase nursing efficiency? decrease med waste? decrease the time it takes a nurse to prepare meds? or ????

What would be your intervention?

How would you evaluate the intervention to come up with an outcome (the answer to your question)?