Appraisal of Evidence Ans🗸🗸🗸 - lower the #, the higher the level of
evidence
1. Systematic reviews or meta-analysis of RCT's & evidence-based
clinical guidelines
2. Well-designed RCT's
3. Well-designed controlled trials w/out randomizations
4. Well-designed case-control or cohort study
5. Systemic reviews of descriptive & qualitative studies
6. single descriptive or qualitative study
7. expert opinion from the authority on the subject
Describe each of the PICOT questions. Ans🗸🗸🗸 - population: who?
where?
- intervention: what are we going to do? what are we studying?
- comparison: whats the standard of care?
- outcome: what are we try to accomplish?
- time: how long?
How do nurses incorporate evidence into practice? Ans🗸🗸🗸 - it allows
nurses to use the best possible solution and better their patients care
How does involving the patient & the family in the plan of care improve
quality & safety? Ans🗸🗸🗸
, Info & Patient Ed Ans🗸🗸🗸 Age of info --> expanded need for health
literature
- ask patients where & how they get health-related info
- explore w/ patients their use of computers & how they decide whether
info obtained from the internet is reliable, accurate & current
- teach patient how to evaluate a health-related website
Methods of Research: Qualitative Ans🗸🗸🗸 - emotional response
- human behavior
- subjective
Methods of Research: Quantitative Ans🗸🗸🗸 - facts
- #s
- objective
minimum data set Ans🗸🗸🗸 minimum fields to chart assessment
PICOT Sample
Does equipping the heavily touched surfaces of a Medical-Surgical
hospital room w/ cooper-alloy products reduce nosocomial infections
when compared to a Medical-Surgical hospital not equipped with copper
alloy products? Ans🗸🗸🗸 P: medical surgical
I: copper alloy