PICO and Literature Search

Purpose: PICO questions are used by practicing nurses and researchers to focus research questions and develop an efficient literature search strategy.  It is essential that future nurses learn how to do this to develop evidenced-based solutions to patient care problems in a healthcare organization. 

Instructions:

1. Write a PICO question based on a scenario you choose from the list of scenarios attached below.  Use the templates in the EBP Step by Step 3 article to help create your questions. You may need to do a pre-search to finding an intervention (the “I”) that has been studied and published to solve the problem.

2. Identify the PICO elements for each question. 

3. Develop a search strategy using at least 3 keywords from the P, I, and O parts of your PICO, 1 synonym for one of the keywords, and 1 MeSH term for one of your keywords. 

4. Locate 4 articles that help answer your PICO question.  The articles must meet the following requirements: 

o must be primary source quantitative research articles.  

o No article can be published prior to 2016. 

5. Obtain pdfs of the four articles you selected from EBSCO database.  They must show the full text of the entire article.  

6. On a Word document, include your scenario; write your PICO question as a sentence; identify the P, I, C, and O for each question; and list the search terms (3 keywords, 1 synonym, 1 MeSH term) for each. You may use the template attached here. See also the link to the MeSH terms website below.

7. Provide a properly formatted APA reference page for your selected articles from Step 4 of these instructions. 

No plagiarism. Grammarly report needed.

For this group discussion, I would like you to choose and examine a primary source that addresses issues at the core of Chapter 5. Then, you will summarize its main arguments, and articulate its connections to the transition to sound film.

You can choose from the following sources:

For your individual discussion contribution please complete the following:

1. Identify the primary source you read and include the link.
2. Summarize the source you read in 50-100 words.
3. In 200-250 words, how does this primary source engage with the historical trajectory and general arguments in chapter 5? Please include specific page numbers and quotations when appropriate.

This portion of your discussion is due Thursday @ 11.59pm and is worth 40 points.