Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet
Name:
Date:
Criteria
Clinical Nursing
Practice Problem
Select and identify
ONLY one quality
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safety clinical priority
area from the assignment
guidelines practice
scenario. Summarize why
you believe the nursing
practice problem/issue is
the most important.
Summarize your
rationale (why) for
choosing the problem.
I have selected a safety area of errors. There are various examples of
nursing errors which have been cited during nursing practice. These errors
often affect the quality of care the patients receive hence risking their
lives. Most errors, if not all, are due to nurse’ failures. The patients are not
always in positions to make errors since they are the ones who receive
care. Medication errors have become common, increasing mortality rate
and length of stay in hospital. More attention needs to be paid to the issue
of errors to make nursing practice a quality and a health saving practice.
Errors are mainly caused by lack of enough knowledge or due to stress and
such other social problems; such as work overload and lack of support.
Strategies have to be developed to manage such errors since they are
increasing the mortality rates globally. The issue is a global concern.
Clinical Nursing
PICOT Question
Using the NR439 Guide
for Writing PICOT
Questions and
Examples located in the
assignment guidelines,
write out your PICOT
question. Include the
PICOT letters in your
question.
Among all bed patients (P), does use patient-specific identifiers by
nurses(I) compared to just dispensing dosages of medication based on
basic memory of the patients(C) help in increasing the number of patients
who receive the right medication (O) in a year(T)?
Define PICOT Elements
Define each of the
PICOT elements from
P- (patient population/patients of interest): all be patients
I- (Intervention): patient-specific identifiers
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your question above. C- (Comparison): normal dispensation based on memory
O- (Measurable outcome): right administration of medication to the right
patients
T- (Time frame in months): 12 months
Evidence Retrieval
Process and Summary
Using only the
Chamberlain College of
Nursing library:
(1) Locate evidence that
is relevant to your chosen
nursing practice problem.
Explain how you believe
the evidence is relevant
to your chosen nursing
practice problem.
(2) Explain why you
chose the evidence
(3) Provides a complete
APA reference to the
evidence (must include
authors, year, the title of
the evidence, title of the
resource)
(4) Evidence must be
published within the last
10 years
(5) Provides the
permalink
A literature review of medication errors in hospitals which disrupt nursing
practice has revealed the level of inefficiency medication errors causes in
nursing practice (Hayes et al., 2015). Using electronic databases, Scopus
and other quality assessment guidelines, the critical literature review
reveals the extent of incidents of medication errors. It is evident that they
errors are caused by interruptions, distractions, disruption and multitasking
done by nurses.
According to the review, the second most reported error-borne area in
methedication and intravenous fluid (IV). Medication errors contribute to
about 20% of all the medications. This is a critical concern. More than ten
thousand cases of medication and IV errors and incidents have occurred in
a period of six months. It is clear that about 450,000 cases of medication
errors are preventable (Hayes et al., 2015) [Show Less]