Difference between a nursing practice problem and a medical practice problem. Provide one example of each. Discuss why is it important to ensure your PICOT is based on a nursing practice problem.
Assessment Description
Describe the difference between a nursing practice problem and a medical practice problem. Provide one example of each. Discuss why is it important to ensure your PICOT is based on a nursing practice problem.
PICOT is utilized by the health care community to identify and study nursing or medical practice problems. Consequently, PICOT examples that may provide insight into the use of the PICOT process, may not be relevant to nursing practice as they are based on a medical practice problem.
Overview
Nursing practice problem
Clinical nursing problems selected for inquiry are generally those encountered in nursing practice and those that deal with modalities of patient care such as support, comfort, prevention of trauma, promotion of recovery, health screening, appraisal and/or assessment, health education, and coordination of health care. The psychosocial dimensions of health care are an essential aspect of clinical nursing research.
Factors considered in selecting a clinical nursing problem for research fall into three general categories: personal, social, and scientific. The personal factors include interest in the problem, competence to conduct the study, time, energy, and money to conduct the study as well as the essential instruments, space, personnel, and equipment to carry out the study. Social factors are concerned with the advancement of science and the ethical value of the study as well as its practicability and applicability.
The scientific factors are those that relate to the logic, empirical, rep-licable, reductive, and transmittable aspects of selection of the problem for study.
Medical practice problem
A medical diagnosis, on the other hand, deals more with the medical condition. Any diagnosis or finding made by the doctor is based on the physiologic state of the patient, or his medical condition. Moreover, the diagnosis of a doctor focuses on the illness itself. As much as possible, through experience and know-how, the exact and precise clinical entity that might be the possible cause of the illness will then be tackled by the doctor, hence, giving the proper medication that would cure the illness.