Question A
EBP and PICOT
Define the process of evidence-based inquiry and precisely what you have learned in this class from your own work and the work of your peers on this search. Provide 2–3 high-level references for your discussion
Directions
PICOT Question
In elderly patients living in long-term care facilities who are at significant risk of falls, how do frequent checks prevent falls compared with moving residents closer to nursing stations to reduce the incidences of falls over a month?
P – elderly patients aged 65 and above
I – frequent checks
C – moving close to the nursing station
O – reduces falls
T – in a month
The highlighted is my picot and in this class, we have been using databases such as PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Ebsco, and scholarly articles less than 5yrs old.
We did qualitative and quantitative research and identity our research articles’ levels of evidence according to John Hopkins evidenced based practice (I, II, III)