I would like to do my project on Fall Prevention in the Medical Surgical Setting The purpose of this assignment is to draft an appropriate and effective PICOT question that can be related to your DNP

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Population

• Choose a population that you have access to through your chosen site.

• Avoid directly sampling a vulnerable population. If your project involves a vulnerable population, consider how else you might impact care delivery without including the vulnerable population in the direct design of your project.

• Make sure you can link the population to a direct practice improvement that can be measured through patient and practice outcomes.

• Ensure you are specific enough that the inclusion and exclusion criteria are evident.

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Intervention

• Remember, your intervention must be based on a sufficient amount of evidence. Do not base education, interventions, or practices on a concept that is not well-supported in literature. You are to translate existing knowledge into practice through your application of the intervention.

• Look for valid and reliable tools for your intervention. Developing programs and instruments is a lengthy process that requires measures for validation. Seek to use programs and tools for which you can gain permission, permission to modify, or have built in-permissions.

• Be sure your intervention feasible. Will it create a financial burden on you? Will you be able to get buy-in from the site?

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Comparison

• Determine how you can compare your intervention to a lack of the intervention or standard of care.

• Ensure you are able to measure what happens when you introduce your intervention as compared to when it is not introduced or before it was introduced.

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Outcome

• Determine if your outcome can be objectively measured.

• Select an established, valid, and reliable tool for measurement.

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Timeline

• Determine if you can complete the project in a meaningful way without a lengthy implementation and data collection period.