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NUR 2475

Professional Nursing Leadership, Management and Transition to Practice

Fishbone Diagrams

This video tutorial outlines the process for creating a fishbone diagram.

PICOT Questions

PICOT is a tool for developing your clinical research question.

P = Patient Population / Problem

Who are the patients and what issues are they experiencing?

I = Intervention

What changes do you want to make? How will you try to address the patients' issues?

C = Comparison

What will you use to compare your intervention against? What is your control group?

O = Outcome

What is your goal for trying this intervention? What results do you plan to measure to determine how effective your intervention was?

T = Time

How long will your data collection take?