Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: Online Resources

Worksheet for creating a PICO question.

Multiple clinical scenarios to help you learn how to formulate a PICO question.

Interactive PICO question generator.

Grants, funding, and guidelines/measures for research in healthcare.

Tools and research for evidence-based effective healthcare.

Interactive tutorial for all steps of evidence-based practice, but mainly focusing on appraisal.

AHRQ reports that offer comprehensive, science-based information on common or costly medical conditions and new healthcare technologies and strategies.

Research, training, and information on nursing research.

Worksheet/checklist for creating and PICO questions, searching for studies, and appraising articles.

High quality clinical research evidence with millions of indexed articles.

After 8 introductory slides, this evidence-based practice tutorial from the University Of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries links to individual tutorials describing each of the 5 steps of evidence-based practice . Step 1 contains excellent examples of formulating PICO questions. Example cases and questions are presented from dentistry, medicine, public health, nursing, physical therapy, and more medical disciplines.