PICOT Statement

How to Write a Nursing PICOT Statement

You are to write a PICO question in a word document, individually and submit for week 5.

The PICO statement will provide a framework for your Capstone Project (The project you must complete during your final course in the RN-BSN program of study). You can review the PICO article “Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step: Asking the Clinical Question” (2010) for help with this.

The PICO question should be written to address the following:

P-Patient population (what are the characteristics of the patient or population or what disease are you interested in)?

I- Intervention (What do you want to do with this patient population-treat/observe/diagnose)?

C- Comparison (What are the alternatives to the intervention placebo, different drug, different nursing intervention)?

O- Outcome (What is the desired effect of the intervention to the patient population)?

T- Timeframe (By when do you want to see results?)