Assessment 2: 6030 PICOT
- Overview:
- Develop a 5–9-page problem statement that presents information related to the problem-intervention-comparison-outcome-time (PICOT) approach to nursing research.
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. - For the first section of your final capstone project you will develop a proposal for an intervention plan to fulfill a need within a specific population. This assessment is meant to capture your initial thoughts about the need and impacting factors to help focus your in-depth analysis later on in the course.
First you will brainstorm and crystallize some of your ideas for this assessment, specifically ideas around needs, a target population, and some initial support from the literature and other sources of evidence. The problem statement is an important part of your capstone project as it will help illustrate the importance of your project, as well as help to clarify your project’s scope.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Explain an overview of one or more interventions that would help drive quality improvement related to an identified need within a target population and setting.
Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population and setting.Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.
Describe a quality improvement method that could impact a patient, population, or systems outcome.
Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.
Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address an identified need.
Competency 5: Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.
Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and setting.
Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost.
Evaluate and synthesize resources from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy, health care technologies, or other communications that could impact the approach taken to address an identified need.
Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Note: You will also be assessed on two additional criteria unaligned to a course competency:
Communicate problem statement and literature review in a way that helps the audience to understand the importance and validity of a proposed project.
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these additional requirements.
Competency Map - Assessment Instructions
- Instructions
Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
Your problem statement will focus on presenting information related to the problem-intervention-comparison-outcome-time (PICOT) approach to nursing research. You will also present a brief literature review that supports the need you identified in your problem statement and the appropriateness of your broad intervention approach. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your problem statement will be able to provide substantive feedback that you will be able to incorporate into the other project components in this course, as well as into the final draft of your project.
At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding Questions: Problem Statement (PICOT) document (linked in the Resources) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.
Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be titled Problem Statement and not Part 1: Problem Statement.
Your Problem Statement (PICOT) should be structured as follows:
PART 1: PROBLEM STATEMENT (2–3 PAGES)
Need Statement (1 paragraph).Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need.
Population and Setting (1–2 paragraphs).
Describe a target population and setting in which an identified need will be addressed.
Intervention Overview (1–2 paragraphs).
Explain an overview of one or more interventions that would help address an identified need within a target population and setting.
Comparison of Approaches (1–2 paragraphs).
Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and setting.
Initial Outcome Draft (1 paragraph).
Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Time Estimate (1 paragraph).
Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address and identified need.
PART 2: LITERATURE REVIEW (10–15 RESOURCES, 3–6 PAGES)
Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population and setting.
Evaluate and synthesize resource from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy that could impact the approach taken to address an identified need.
ADDRESS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT
Communicate problem statement and literature review in way that helps the audience understand the importance and validity of a proposed project.
Problem Statement (PICOT) Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Analyze a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management need.
Does not describe
a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management
need.
Describes a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention, education,
or management issue,
but fails to analyze the
need, its importance,
or key pieces of
evidence to support
its urgency.
Analyzes a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management
need.
Analyzes a health
promotion, quality
improvement, prevention,
education, or
management need, and
identifies assumptions on
which the analysis is
based.
Describe a quality
improvement
method that could
impact a patient,
population, or
systems outcome.
Does not describe
a quality
improvement
method that could
impact a patient,
population, or
systems outcome.
States a quality
improvement method,
but fails to describe
why it could impact a
patient, population, or
systems outcome.
Describes a
quality
improvement
method that could
impact a patient,
population, or
systems outcome.
Describes a quality
improvement method that
could impact a patient,
population, or systems
outcome, and identifies
potential challenges of
working on the identified
need with the target
population and setting.
Explain an
overview of one or
more interventions
that would help
drive quality
improvement
related to an
identified need
within a target
population and
setting.
Does not provide
an overview of one
or more
interventions that
would help drive
quality
improvement
related to an
identified need
within a target
population and
setting.
Provides an overview
of one or more
interventions that
would help drive
quality improvement
related to an identified
need within a target
population and
setting, but fails to
explain how the
interventions fit the
target population,
setting, and the
identified need.
Explains an
overview of one
or more
interventions that
would help drive
quality
improvement
related to an
identified need
within a target
population and
setting.
Explains an overview of
one or more interventions
that would help drive
quality improvement
related to an identified
need within a target
population and setting,
impartially acknowledging
weaknesses in each
intervention.
Analyze potential
interprofessional
alternatives to an
initial intervention
with regard to their
possibilities to
meet the needs of
the project,
population, and
setting.
Does not present
potential
alternatives to an
initial intervention
overview.
Presents potential
interprofessional
alternatives to an
initial intervention, but
fails to comparatively
analyze their
potentials related to
interprofessional care
opportunities or the
needs of the project,
population, or setting.
Analyzes potential
interprofessional
alternatives to an
initial intervention
with regard to
their possibilities
to meet the needs
of the project,
population, and
setting.
Analyzes potential
interprofessional
alternatives to an initial
intervention with regard to
their possibilities to meet
the needs of the project,
population, and setting,
impartially acknowledging
weaknesses in each
alternative.
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Define an outcome
related to a health
policy that
identifies the
purpose and
intended
accomplishments
of an intervention
for a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management need.
Does not define an
outcome related to
a health policy that
identifies the
purpose and
intended
accomplishments
of an intervention
for a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management
need.
Attempts to define an
outcome related to a
health policy that
identifies the purpose
and intended
accomplishments of
an intervention for a
health promotion,
quality improvement,
prevention, education,
or management need.
Defines an
outcome related
to a health policy
that identifies the
purpose and
intended
accomplishments
of an intervention
for a health
promotion, quality
improvement,
prevention,
education, or
management
need.
Defines an outcome
related to a health policy
that identifies the purpose
and intended
accomplishments of an
intervention for a health
promotion, quality
improvement, prevention,
education, or
management need, and
identifies criteria that
could be used to evaluate
achievement of the
outcome.
Propose a rough
time frame for the
development and
implementation of
an intervention to
address an
identified need.
Does not propose
a rough time frame
for the
development and
implementation of
an intervention to
address an
identified need.
Attempts to propose a
rough time frame for
the development and
implementation of an
intervention to
address an identified
need, but the
proposed time frame
is not realistic or does
not consider
challenges for
development or
implementation.
Proposes a rough
time frame for the
development and
implementation of
an intervention to
address an
identified need.
Proposes a rough time
frame for the
development and
implementation of an
intervention to address an
identified need, and
identifies areas of
uncertainty or knowledge
gaps that could affect the
time frame.
Analyze current
evidence to validate
an identified need
and its
appropriateness
within the target
population and
setting.
Does not present
adequate current
evidence to
validate an
identified need and
its appropriateness
within the target
population and
setting.
Attempts to present
adequate current
evidence, but the
sources do not
persuasively validate
the need or its
appropriateness
within the target
population or setting.
Analyzes current
evidence to
validate an
identified need
and its
appropriateness
within the target
population and
setting.
Analyzes current
evidence to validate an
identified need and its
appropriateness within
the target population and
setting, and evaluates the
relevance, currency,
sufficiency, and
trustworthiness of the
evidence.
Evaluate and
synthesize
resources from
diverse sources
illustrating existing
health policy,
health care
technologies, or
other
communications
that could impact
the approach taken
Does not cite
resources relevant
to existing health
policy that could
impact the
proposed project.
Cites resources that
illustrate potential
existing health policy
that could impact the
approach taken to
address an identified
need, but fails to
evaluate and
synthesize policy
impacts on the
proposed project.
Evaluates and
synthesizes
resources from
diverse sources
illustrating
existing health
policy, health care
technologies, or
other
communications
that could impact
the approach
Evaluates and
synthesizes resources
from diverse sources
illustrating existing health
policy, health care
technologies, or other
communications that
could impact the
approach taken to
address an identified
need, and identifies
missing information
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to address an
identified need.
taken to address
an identified
need.
related to health policy.
Communicate
problem statement
and literature
review in a way that
helps the audience
to understand the
importance and
validity of a
proposed project.
Problem statement
and literature
review are not
communicated in a
way that helps the
audience to
understand the
importance and
validity of a
proposed project.
Inconsistently
communicates
problem statement
and literature review,
in a way that partially
helps the audience to
understand the
importance and
validity of a proposed
project.
Communicates
problem
statement and
literature review in
a way that helps
the audience to
understand the
importance and
validity of a
proposed project.
Communicates problem
statement and literature
review in a way that helps
the audience to
understand the
importance and validity of
a proposed project.
Grammar, punctuation,
spelling, and citations are
error-free.
Demonstrate
completion of
hours toward the
practicum
experience.
Does not
demonstrate
completion of
hours toward the
practicum
experience.
Demonstrates
completion of hours
toward the practicum
experience, but
provides no details
about activities
completed during
those hours.
Demonstrates
completion of
hours toward the
practicum
experience.
Demonstrates completion
of hours toward the
practicum experience,
and provides a clear and
concise description of the
focus of the clinical hours
and alignment to the
capstone project.
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