Evidence-Based Practice Assignment – Searchable Clinical Questions Form STUDENT NAME: DATE: DIRECTIONS: Please read the Evidence-Based Practice Guideline Rubric located in Doc Sharing, for instructions on how to complete this form. 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 Evidence-Based Practice Assignment – Searchable Clinical Questions Guidelines with Grading 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, and c) search for relevant evidence in scholarly databases. 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) Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5. Total Points Possible: 140 Requirements: Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements. 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. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form found in Doc Sharing. Although the worksheet is provided, you may need to add additional rows to the grid in order to accommodate your search results. Be sure to include all of your steps in the Notes column. Submit the form to the Dropbox by the due date. Preparing the paper 1. In Doc Sharing, you will find the Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form. This is the form to be used to submit the assignment. No other paper is required for this assignment. Although this form is provided for this assignment, you may need to add additional rows to the grid to accommodate your search results. 2. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the form as you are doing each search. 3. The Notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search is undertaken. Be sure to include all of the steps you used. 4. An optimal range of 10–20 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each search. This may require performing a combination of Boolean terms in order to achieve the optimal range. If this is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the Notes section. Points will be deducted if you do not perform enough of a search to arrive at the optimal range. 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 Search Number P I C O T # of Results Notes 1 Patients with muscle spasms 9576 I searched on the P, patients with muscle spasms, by typing it in the search field and clicking Search. 2 antispasmodic 42261 I searched on the I, antispasmodic, by typing it into the search field and clicking Search. 3 relaxation techniques 18003 I clicked Clear and typed relaxation in the search field. CINAHL suggested relaxation techniques, so I chose to search on this. 4 muscle spasms 20693 I clicked Clear and typed muscle spasms in the search field, and clicked Search. 5 Patients with muscle spasms antispasmodic Relaxation techniques 10 I clicked on Advanced Search and combined Search #1 with Search #2 and Search #3 using the Boolean operator AND. I clicked Search. The Results were 10 abstracts. This is within the optimal range of 10–20 returns, so I stopped searching. *This table reports the history of an actual search of this clinical question in PubMed. Category Points % Description Content 25 18% Clinical research question is clearly written in PICO(T) format. Content 25 18% PICO (T) search terms are clearly identified. Content 25 18% A completed search in PubMed/Medline is conducted, following guidelines in the tutorial. Content 25 18% A completed search in CINAHL is conducted, following guidelines in the tutorial. Content 25 18% A completed search in JOANNA BRIGGS is conducted, following guidelines in the instructions. Format & Grammar 15 10% Grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work. Total 140 100 A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.
