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<strong>NR</strong> <strong>500</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 5 <strong>Assignment</strong><br />

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<strong>NR</strong> <strong>500</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 5 <strong>Assignment</strong><br />

Evidence-Based Practice <strong>Assignment</strong> –Searchable Clinical Questions<br />

Guidelines with Grading Rubric<br />

Purpose<br />

The purpose of this assignment is to: a) formulate a PICO (T)-formatted clinical question, b)<br />

identify key terms for conducting a review of the literature, and c) search for relevant evidence in<br />

scholarly databases.<br />

Course Outcomes<br />

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:<br />

(CO #3)Apply research principles to interpretation of the content of published research studies.<br />

(PO 9)<br />

(CO #4) Analyze data from relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of<br />

care. (PO 4)<br />

(CO #5) Analyze the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of<br />

Master’s Education in Nursing. (PO 1)<br />

Due Date:Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of <strong>Week</strong> 5.<br />

Total Points Possible: 140<br />

Requirements:<br />

1. Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical<br />

question using the PICO (T) format.<br />

2. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements.<br />

3. Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases:<br />

PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and The Joanna<br />

Briggs Institute database.<br />

4. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the Evidence-Based Practice<br />

Searchable Clinical Questions Form found in Doc Sharing. Although the worksheet is provided,<br />

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.<br />

5. Submit the form to the Dropbox by the due date.<br />

Preparing the paper<br />

1. In Doc Sharing, you will find the <strong>Week</strong> 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical<br />

Questions Form. This is the form to be used to submit the assignment. No other paper is required<br />

for this assignment. Although this form is provided for this assignment, you may need to add<br />

additional rows to the grid to accommodate your search results.<br />

2. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the form as you are doing each search.<br />

3. The Notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search is undertaken. Be sure<br />

to include all of the steps you used.<br />

4. An optimal range of 10–20 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each search. This may<br />

require performing a combination of Boolean terms in order to achieve the optimal range. If this<br />

is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the Notes section. Points will be<br />

deducted if you do not perform enough of a search to arrive at the optimal range.<br />

Example: PubMed<br />

Clinical Question: In patients with muscle spasms, is relaxation as good as anti-spasmodic<br />

medication in reducing the incidence of muscle spasms?*<br />

The PICO (T) elements are:<br />

P = patients with muscle spasms<br />

I = anti-spasmodic medication<br />

C= relaxation<br />

O = reducing incidence of muscle spasms

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