1. Reflect on your practice, and identify a significant nursing clinical issue or change project that you would like to search for evidence in online sources.
2. Formulate searchable, clinical questions in the PICO(T) format for your nursing clinical issue.
3. Next, review the guidelines for the PICOT Assignment due Week 3. Use your PICOT elements to search for one report of a single, original study that has been published within the last 5 years from the CCN Library that is relevant to your nursing clinical issue. ( https://library.chamberlain.edu/libraryhome )
4. Briefly describe how it is relevant to your nursing clinical issue. Remember to give a complete reference to the study.
Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research: Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
Chapter 2: The Research Process and Ways of Knowing, pp. 31–47
Chapter 4: Finding Problems and Writing Questions, pp. 83–107
Required Articles:
Peterson, M. H., Barnason, S., Donnelly, B., Hill, K., Miley, H., Riggs, L., & Whiteman, K. (2014). Choosing the best evidence to guide clinical practice: Application of AACN levels of evidence. Critical Care Nurse, 34(2), 58–68.
Hain, D. J., & Kear, T. M. (2015). Using evidence-based practice to move beyond doing things the way we have always done them. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 42(1), 11–21.
