NURS FPX6030 Assessment 2 PICO (T) and an Evidence-Based Approach

PICO (T) and an Evidence-Based Approach

The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the healthcare problem in the organization that uses the most viable intervention-comparison-outcome-time (PICOT) approach. The PICOT is a framework which often applies to problems in the healthcare industries. Due to rising cases of hypertension in black Americans and other minorities in the United States, the purpose of capstone project is to base the learning from 20 confirmed practicum hours to find a solution for that problem by making and considering a PICOT question. Therefore, the capstone project provides the description of clinical hours spent and how it relates to this particular project. This is where the professional work of our registered nurses begins with brainstorming to explore the answer to this PICOT question. Using evidence-based practices, the goal is to improve the patient care outcomes and reduce hypertension. This is why the PICTO question formulation plays a critical role to help nurses create better strategies. The PICOT often deals with several components such as considering population/patient, intervention, comparison, outcome, and time (Aggarwal, 2021). The case study of our organization is analysed using the PICOT question.

Moreover, the element of ‘patient’ refers to the actual population of patients in the healthcare organization. The intervention refers to nurses who take actions to find the solutions; while the comparison element means comparing the interventions with other ones, and the outcomes help to provide the results needed. This strategy helps the organization to reduce overall costs of HTN treatment of minorities and enhance care quality. The PICOT question is: Can technology such as telemedicine can reduce hypertension costs of the organization due to increasing black patients and lead to an improvement of their condition to reduce depression and anxiety?

The Need for Improvement and Health Promotion and Quality

According to the PICOT question, the aim of this capstone project is to help nurses find the best interventions for HTN treatment in African American and minority patients in US. The credible sources from the scholarly literature have been analyzed using different databases and online journals. The aim is to search the required search terms and find the most important and credible source through analysis of peer-reviewed articles which match with our PICOT question (Blyler et al., 2020). This is done by the DNP and registered nurses to utilize the secondary resources online and explain the issue of hypertension in African American patients with the right treatment options. For instance, the most critical problem is the reimbursement based on performance-based outcomes (Megaship & Patel, 2022). Due to the surging population of hypertension patients, professionals utilize performance-based outcome measures as well as evidence-based practices. This ensures that the evidence-based practices are implemented in a way to improve the outcomes. Moreover, the second vital issue is the lack of education of our nursing staff due to which the black pateints are unsatisfied. The training of our professionals can help them to learn new skills and boost knowledge. 

Using the evidence-based practices, the problem of hypertension can be solved. However, the sad fact is that our healthcare professionals are still not well-prepared to form PICOT questions related to hypertension issues of black patients. The lack research and development R&D skills to find the solution for depression. Our senior nurses suggested use of telemedicine to treat HTN black patients by using evidence-based practices. This report is based on the assumption that the evidence-based PICOT tools and questions play a major role in helping nursing and other practitioners to address a wide range of mental health problems (Beverly et al., 2022). For instance, using this framework, nurses can create background questions and better explore the current patients’ conditions to figure out the impact of medications or psychotherapy and how black patients are affected (Beverly et al., 2022). A question can be asked such as “What are the factors concerning HTN treatment of black Americans that are leading to their dissatisfaction? Using this question, it becomes easier for our nurses to search the relevant literature and compare different answers and evidence-based solutions to answer this question. This will help them to plan better treatments and interventions to make an early diagnosis of hypertension. The factors which may relat