(Answered) Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet

The priority area is reducing fall rates in older people. Falls are the major cause of morbidity among elder adults. Research shows that falls have caused deaths, unintended injuries, and trauma admissions. It is important to prevent fall rates to protect to reduce morbidity-related deaths in older adults. Research shows that fall morbidity rates are high, and thus, there is a need to tackle the problem.

Select and identify ONLY one quality or 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.

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.

Define each of the PICOT elements from your question above.

I– (Intervention): evidence-based fall practices

C– (Comparison): usual fall prevention interventions

O– (Measurable outcome): reducing fall rates

T– (Time frame in months): three months intervention program

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, title of the evidence, title of the resource)

(4) Evidence must be published within the last 10 years

(5) Provides the permalink

Colón‐Emeric et al. (2006) discuss the effectiveness of care after the application of evidence-fall reduction improvement programs in nursing facilities. This source is important as it directly relates to the topic of falls. While the source had many barriers that made it difficult to observe the effectiveness of evidence-based practices in reducing falls, it suggests that interdisciplinary collaboration ought to be developed to help reduce falls. Colón‐Emeric et al. (2006) are important in my chosen problem as it exposes the need to implement evidence-based practice in reducing fall rates.

Summarize what you learned from the evidence. Summarize why you believe the nursing evidence-based practice committee should focus their next research project on the nursing practice problem.

Identify 4 (or more) relevant searchable terms you used for your search for evidence.

Falls, fall prevention techniques, evidence-based fall practices, causes of morbidity in older populations

Strategies

Select 4 (or more) relevant search strategies you used to narrow/limit your search for

evidence.

____   Full text

____   Boolean Operators/Phrase

____   Selected publication dates within last 10 years

____   Subject, title, or author search box

____   Truncation (used an asterisk * at the beginning or end of a word)

____   Academic or scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals

____   Quotation marks for key words

____   Selected key terms from PICOT question

____   Others: (list below): ____________________________________________

Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet

Complete each section of the Problem/PICOT/Evidence (PPE) Worksheet. Use one of the templates/guides to write your Clinical PICOT Question using all of the PICOT elements. Be sure to include the PICOT letters in your question, Topic area to complete the PPE is FALLS.

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