PICOT Question and Literature Search

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify
a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a
clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.
For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT
question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six
supporting peer-revised research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed
research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments.
Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment.
Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient
population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words,
provide a summary of the clinical issue.
Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of
interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students
must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).
The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project.
Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem
of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed
research articles to support your nursing practice problem.
Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow
or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what
research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of
the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods.
Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong
level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles. Therefore, they should not be included in
this assignmen