You are a registered nurse working in a rural, critical access emergency department with limited healthcare services and no specialized medical care. The community has high rates of poverty, unemployment, and drug use. You have noticed that patients regularly use the emergency department as they would a primary care provider, coming in for minor issues such as colds and ear infections, and failing to follow-up with a primary or specialized care provider or complete required laboratory tests for management of their plan of care. These visits, in addition to patients arriving by ambulance and those with other medical emergencies, keep the 10 bed emergency room full and often result in patients waiting 2 hours or more to be seen by a provider.
For this assignment, you will create a PICO(T) question based on the scenario presented above. Your paper should be in APA 7th edition format, including title page and reference page. Address the following:
PARAGRAPH 1: Begin your paper with an introduction to your PICOT topic. This can be any clinical issue you choose -EXCEPT COVID-19.
Indicate what you will address in the rest of your paper (introductory statement)
Describe your topic
Describe its significance (this may include statistics on the problem, complications, etc.)
Essentially, explain WHY your problem needs to be addressed
PARAGRAPH 2, FIRST SENTENCE -Determine an appropriate PICO(T) question for addressing. Write your PICO(T) in correct question format. INTERVENTION PICO(T) only. Do not use other types of PICO(T)s.
PARAGRAPH 2, In your text,
describe your population/patient (consider age, disease/condition, gender or biological sex, etc.)
describe the main intervention (the drug or other treatment you propose) AND the comparison (the main alternative to your drug/treatment intervention -the alternative could be NO treatment)
describe what your outcome (reduced complication be specific; improved memory; reduced anxiety, etc.) Whatever the outcome may be, but it must be specific and measurable. You cannot measure improvement or reduced complications. Be SPECIFIC.
PARAGRAPH 3: Identify and explain 2 facilitators and 2 barriers to implementing the practice you propose in your PICO(T) (What helps/what hinders?)
PARAGRAPH 4: Conclusion: Summarize your paper
Minimum of three (3) total references: references not older than five years.
