The focus for Week 2 is on questions: PICOT/PICo and practice questions.

• Using the area of interest from Week 1, identify the following.
  • Will you be using a quantitative or qualitative approach for your EBP project proposal?
  • Explain why this approach is the best one to provide information for your area of interest.
  • Create a PICOT/PICo question using the PICOT/PICo format for quantitative and PICo for qualitative approaches.
  • Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following.

 

• For a quantitative approach

§ A questioning part such as "what is," "what are," "is there," or "are there"

§ Population being studied

§ Variables being studied

§ Suggestion of the relationship between variables

• For a qualitative approach

§ Phenomenon or concept of interest

§ Group or population of interest

§ Suggestion of which qualitative research design is being used

This week's assignment is the first section of your culmination paper that will be due with the corrections and revisions in Week 6. This week you submit Refinement of Nursing Issue Into Research Assignment.