Topic: Checklist
Identifying a Problem, Developing a Question, and Selecting Sources of Literature
Instructions:
This checklist is designed to help students organize the weekly exercises/assignments to be completed as preparation for the final, capstone project proposal. This checklist will also serve as a communication tool between students and faculty. Comments, feedback and grading for modules 1-4 will be documented using this checklist.
Identifying a Problem
- Explains setting and/or context in which nursing problem is observed.
- Detailed description of problem, issue, or educational deficit provided.
- Impact of problem on work environment and patient outcomes described.
- Significance to nursing profession discussed.
- Solution to the problem identified.
Developing a Question - Identified components of PICOT:
P - Population of Focus
I - Intervention
C - Comparison
O - Outcome
T-Time
- Developed PICO question/statement.
- Selecting Sources of Literature - Rapid Appraisal Performed on a minimum of 15 peer-reviewed articles.
Rapid Appraisal
Perform a rapid appraisal of each article by answering the following questions (one to two sentences are sufficient to answer each question):
1) How does each article describe the nature of the problem, issue, or deficit you have identified?
2) Does each article provide statistical information to demonstrate the gravity of the issue, problem, or deficit?
3) Example(s): morbidity, mortality, rate of incidence or rate of occurrence in the general population.
4) Does each article support your proposed change?
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Attachment:- capstone check list.rar