Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2015) wrote that without updating the best evidence, practice is quickly outdated, and often at disadvantage to the patients. And as nurse leaders, we need should be the ones that say there are better, safer ways to take care of our patients and the old ways are not necessarily the best. Using the PICOT question can help the nurse leader in researching the best practices and thus obtaining high-quality results. Each letter of PICOT represents an item that the nurse looks for while researching: (P) is for the patient or problem, (I) is for intervention, (C) is for comparison, (O) is for the outcome, and (T) is for the time.
Mary inquired if a presentation was given about the process of the early discharge at our
Mary inquired if a presentation was given about the process of the early discharge at our