evidence based practice

[gfoster6993]

HI, I am in the LPN-RN transition program. If all goes well, I will be graduating May 10th of this year. So here is what I need a little help with. We are suppose to come up with a PICO question (Evidenced Based Practice).

PICO stands for

P-Population

I-intervention

C-comparison/control

O-Outcome

I have already sent in two different ideas to my instructor and both have been denied, so I don't know what I am doing wrong.

My first idea was: In a patient with osteoarthritis does taking glucosamine/chondroitin as good as or better than taking NSAIDS for pain?

My second one was : In patients requiring wound care, does tap water as compared to normal saline reduce the incidence of infection and decrease the cost of dressing changes?"

My instructor said that I would probably not find enough research to back this up.

Can somone please, please help me with a good question to do this project on. I have so many tests, on top of my clinicals on top of my final weighing heavily on my mind. I'm not asking for someone to do my work for me, just head me in the right direction. I'm not very good at writing papers anyway.....(and I'm wanting my BSN..boy am I in trouble:))

Any help would be more than appreciated! Hope you all have a good day! God bless

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

PICO or evidenced based practice.

Health Care: Evidence-based Practice Subdirectory Page

Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care: Structured Abstract

End-of-Life Care and Outcomes: Structured Abstract

Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices: Structured Abstract

These links might help......this one as well

Pico Nursing Free Essays 1 - 20

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

my colleague esme is offering these great resources to read to get ideas, not copy . when college faculty pick up their keys and get assigned their mailboxes, they get programs to identify plagiarism. not insinuating anything about the op (actually, i thought i'd seen some research on chondroitin, but maybe not nursing research), just a word to the wise.

[ckh23, BSN, RN]

I don't know why the second one was denied, there is plenty of information about it out there. Perhaps if you show your instructor some of the references you can come up with, he/she might allow you to do that topic.

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

First, it's easier to write about something that you know and enjoy. So choose a topic in an area that you have interest in.

PICO questions can be about absolutely anything. Some of the students in my class did their topics on breast feeding vs bottle feeding, different wound care products, alternative therapies for cancer treatment or pain management, new medications to treat common diseases, kangaroo care and premie outcomes, reiki, dance therapy, the list goes on.

Once you come up with a topic, do some quick research. Go onto a search engine like google scholar or ebsco host and find 5-10 reliable articles. They need to be recent, peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Bring the topic and the list of sources to your instructor to prove that there is enough research to support your paper. If you're really attached to one of the topics you already submitted, do a search for research related to it to show your instructor that you can find enough to write a good paper.