Picot Research Project Assignment

EBP Searchable Clinical Questions

with Annotated Bibliography

Guidelines with Scoring Rubric

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to: a) formulate a PICO (T)-formatted clinical question, b) identify key terms for conducting a review of the literature, c) search for relevant evidence in scholarly databases, and provide a summary of research articles to support an answer to the clinical question. Picot Research Project Assignment

Course Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

(CO#3) Apply research principles to interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO 9)

(CO#4) Analyze data from relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of care. (PO 4)

(CO#5) Analyze the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing. (PO 1)

 

Total Points Possible: 200

Requirements:

1. Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format.

1. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements

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1. Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and The Joanna Briggs Institute database.

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1. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the “Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form” found in Course Resources. Place this completed form in the Dropbox.

1. From the articles you found during your database searches, choose four (4) scholarly peer reviewed articles that would help provide an answer or provide insight to your clinical research question and write them in an annotated bibliography format. Include which database you found the 4 articles that you choose for your annotated bibliography. Submit this APA 6th ed format paper into the Dropbox for a Turnitin Review.

1. Submit the Searchable Clinical Questions Form and your annotated bibliography paper to the Dropbox by the due date. The annotated bibliography is the only part of this assignment that you need to have the Turnitin similarity report less than 25%.

 

Preparing the paper

1. In Course Resources, you will find the ‘Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form’. This is the form that you can use to document your search process and results. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the tables as you are doing each search

2. The notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search process is performed.

3. An optimal range of 10-15 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each database search. If this is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the notes section. Do not stop too soon or you may miss some valuable article to help answer your clinical question. You want to be able to identify ten scholarly peer reviewed articles that would help answer or provide insight to your clinical research question so you can summarize them in an annotated bibliography written in APA 6th ed format. The annotated bibliography will be a separate Word document in APA 6th ed format.

 

Example: PubMed

Clinical Question: In patients with muscle spasms, is relaxation as good as anti-spasmodic medication in reducing the incidence of muscle spasms?*

The PICO (T) elements are:

P = patients with muscle spasms

I = anti-spasmodic medication

C= relaxation

O = reducing incidence of muscle spasms

T = not applicable in this case

Search Number	P	I	C	O	T	# of Results	Notes
1	Patients with muscle spasms					8750	I searched on the P, “patients with muscle spasms” by typing it in the search field and clicking “Search”
2		antispasmodic				46690	I searched on the I, “antispasmodic” by typing it into the search field and clicking “Search.”
3			relaxation			119010	I clicked “Clear” and typed “relaxation” in the search field. CINAHL suggested “relaxation techniques” so I chose to search on this.
4			Relaxation techniques			35602	I added techniques to the search field and clicked “Search”.
5				muscle spasms		23937	I clicked “Clear” and typed “muscle spasms” in the search field and clicked “Search.”
6		Antispasmodic	Relaxation techniques			936	I clicked on “advanced search” and combined Search #2 and Search #4 using the Boolean operator “AND”. I clicked “Search.”.
7		Antispasmodic	Relaxation techniques			7120	I clicked on advanced search and used the Boolean Term “or”. I chose Full text and 5 years then clicked search.
8			Relaxation techniques	Muscle spasms		285	I clicked on advanced search and combined relaxation techniques and muscle spasms.
9		Antispasmodic	Relaxation techniques	Muscle spasms		17	Still using the Advanced Search, I used all three terms with Boolean term “And” between antispasmodic and relaxation techniques and muscle spasms. Clicked search.
10		Antispasmodic	Relaxation techniques	Muscle spasms		5	I clicked on advanced search, added Boolean term “and” plus indicated English only, full-text, and time frame 2011-2016.(5 years) Clicked “Search”. This was not in the range of 10-15 scholarly articles so decided to look at each of these articles to see if any of them would help answer my clinical research question. I then chose three of these articles for my annotated bibliography.

*This table reports the history of an actual search of this clinical question in PubMed

 

 

 

 

Chamberlain College of Nursing NR500 Foundational Concepts and Application

 

 

 

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Grading Rubric

 

NR500 week 5 Rev 9/15/16 sw

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Chamberlain College of Nursing NR500 Foundational Concepts and Applications

Evidence-Based Practice Assignment – Searchable Clinical Questions Form

Student Name:

Date:

Directions: Please read the Evidence-Based Practice Guideline-Searchable Clinical Questions Form Guidelines and Rubric located in Course Resources, for instructions on how to complete this form. You may add more rows to each table to fit your search. Picot Research Project Assignment

1. Clinical Question:

Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question, using the PICO (T) format. Please type the question here:

 

2. Identify the PICO (T) Terms:

 

 

 

3. Search: PubMed/MEDLINE

Go to MEDLINE at http://www.pubmed.gov and conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:

Search Number	P	I	C	O	T	# of Results	Notes

 

4. Search: EBSCO/CINAHL

Go to the Chamberlain Library at http://www.chamberlain.edu/library and enter EBSCO. Conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:

Search Number	P	I	C	O	T	# of Results	Notes

5. Search: The Joanna Briggs Institute

Go to The Joanna Briggs Institute via the CCN Library. Conduct a search on your clinical question. Please type your search history in the table below:

Search Number	P	I	C	O	T	# of Results	Notes

 

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2

 

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Annotated Bibliography: Title of your paper

Student Name

Chamberlain College of Nursing

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Annotated Bibliography: Title of your paper

Billingsley, S. K., Collins, A. M. & Miller, M. (2007). Healthy student, healthy nurse: A stress

management workshop. Nurse Educator, 32(2), 49-51.

doi:10.1097/01.NNE.0000264333.42577.c6

This article, presented by advanced degreed nurse educators, discusses a successful stress reduction program implemented for nursing students to diminish personal and academic levels of stress associated with nursing education using combination of quantitative and qualitative design approaches. Use of evidence based peer reviewed articles established that there was a need for both health promotion and self-care strategies education to (a) define stress related to the educational process, (b) determine coping strategies such as nutritional choices and exercise and (c) create a personalized stress management plan. The program results reported meeting these objectives through participant responses on questionnaires and additional written comments. Although this is not a full research study the responses from the students to the program led to the recommendation to use this program with nursing students in other schools. As presented this program appears objective, the authors are credentialed faculty and deals specifically with nursing student stress which is the selected topic. This program may be one that could be considered within the college of nursing as an optional offering for nursing students who self-identify a need for stress reduction.

McCaffrey, R., Thomas, D. J., & Kinzelman, A. O. (2009). The effects of lavender and

rosemary essential oils on test-taking anxiety among graduate nursing students. Holistic Nursing Practice, 23(2), 88-93. doi:10.1097/HNP.0b013e3181a110aa

Using peer reviewed articles and recent research the advanced practice nurse authors

developed a quasi-experimental quantitative research design study to determine the ability of two essential oils to decrease test-taking anxiety in graduate nursing students as measured by an established tool, with strong reliability and validity that identifies levels of perceived stress. Methods were clearly outlined with data analysis demonstrating a statistically significant difference between before and after test anxiety with use of sachets for inhalation of lavender and rosemary oil. Even with the expression of limitations of the study, the authors recommend use of these oils for reduction of graduate nursing student test-taking anxiety. This study meets expected rigor for research, the authors are credentialed faculty and the content deals directly with the selected topic. This authors of this study indicate that due to the low cost and ease of use of this stress relief option that it should be considered by the group as one of the options to offer for the class presentation. Picot Research Project Assignment