Chamberlain College of NR439 PPE
Nursing Worksheet
Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet
Name:
Date:
Criteria I have selected a safety area of errors. There are various examples of
nursing errors which have been cited during nursing practice. These errors
Clinical Nursing often affect the quality of care the patients receive hence risking their
Practice Problem 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
Select and identify
and length of stay in hospital. More attention needs to be paid to the issue
ONLY one quality or
of errors to make nursing practice a quality and a health saving practice.
safety clinical priority
Errors are mainly caused by lack of enough knowledge or due to stress and
area from the assignment
such other social problems; such as work overload and lack of support.
guidelines practice
Strategies have to be developed to manage such errors since they are
scenario. Summarize why
increasing the mortality rates globally. The issue is a global concern.
you believe the nursing
practice problem/issue is
the most important.
Summarize your
rationale (why) for
choosing the problem.
Clinical Nursing Among all bed patients (P), does use patient-specific identifiers by
nurses(I) compared to just dispensing dosages of medication based on
PICOT Question basic memory of the patients(C) help in increasing the number of patients
who receive the right medication (O) in a year(T)?
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 PICOT Elements P- (patient population/patients of interest): all be patients
Define each of the I- (Intervention): patient-specific identifiers
PICOT elements from
1
Nursing Worksheet
Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet
Name:
Date:
Criteria I have selected a safety area of errors. There are various examples of
nursing errors which have been cited during nursing practice. These errors
Clinical Nursing often affect the quality of care the patients receive hence risking their
Practice Problem 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
Select and identify
and length of stay in hospital. More attention needs to be paid to the issue
ONLY one quality or
of errors to make nursing practice a quality and a health saving practice.
safety clinical priority
Errors are mainly caused by lack of enough knowledge or due to stress and
area from the assignment
such other social problems; such as work overload and lack of support.
guidelines practice
Strategies have to be developed to manage such errors since they are
scenario. Summarize why
increasing the mortality rates globally. The issue is a global concern.
you believe the nursing
practice problem/issue is
the most important.
Summarize your
rationale (why) for
choosing the problem.
Clinical Nursing Among all bed patients (P), does use patient-specific identifiers by
nurses(I) compared to just dispensing dosages of medication based on
PICOT Question basic memory of the patients(C) help in increasing the number of patients
who receive the right medication (O) in a year(T)?
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 PICOT Elements P- (patient population/patients of interest): all be patients
Define each of the I- (Intervention): patient-specific identifiers
PICOT elements from
1
