Name _Kenrick E.

Bajao_________ Section __E__ Date _09/07/2020_

ACTIVITY 2- EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Do the following:

A.   Read the scenario

B.   Identify the type of Clinical Question

C.   Identify PICOT in the scenario

D.   Select the appropriate templates and formulate your questions.

1. Patients with a sore throat should not automatically be prescribed antibiotics as many
sore throats are non-bacterial in origin. The gold standard for diagnosing bacterial sore
throat is a throat swab and culture but this is expensive and time-consuming. The
Physician need a quick, easy diagnostic tool (e.g. a checklist or scorecard) to help them
to decide whether a sore throat is bacterial or non-bacterial in origin.

Diagnostic question

Patient/Population: Patients with sore throat

Intervention/Indicator: checklist or scorecard

Comparison/Control: throat swab and culture

Outcomes: Accurate diagnosis

Type of Study or Question: Does a sore throat checklist or scorecard help Physicians
differentiate between bacterial (requiring antibiotics) and non-bacterial infection
inpatients presenting with a sore throat?

2. You're a new graduate who's accepted a position on a gerontology unit. A number of

the patients have dementia and are showing aggressive behavior. You recall a clinical
experience you had as a first-year nursing student in a long-term care unit and
remember seeing many of the patients in a specialty unit for dementia walking around
holding baby dolls. You're wondering if giving baby dolls to your patients with dementia
would be helpful.

Prognosis/Predictions
Patient/Population: Patients who have dementia

Intervention/Indicator: Giving baby dolls

Comparison/Control: Patients in a specialty unit for dementia walking around holding

baby dolls

Outcomes: Showing aggressive behavior

Type of Study or Question: Are patients with dementia who is given baby dolls decrease
in aggressive behavior compared with patients with dementia without baby dolls?

3. A Student nurse with a special interest in smoking cessation wants to encourage

those in her practice to engage with teenagers to stop them smoking. In order to
persuade her colleagues she wants to see what evidence is available, particularly on
the effectiveness of brief intervention techniques.

Etiology Question

Patient/Population: Teenagers who smoke

Intervention/Indicator: Brief intervention

Comparison/Control: None

Outcomes: Smoking cessation

Type of Study or Question: Can brief intervention be used as an effective smoking

cessation technique with teenagers?