PICOT Assessment

PICOT Assessment

 

PICOT, Problem Intervention Comparison, and Outcome is an essential tool in nursing in an element of clinical research. This stands for population or the patient’s problem which describes who the patient is (health, age, race, status) intervention in other words what do you plan to do to the patient during their hospital stay, comparison, what is the alternative to the current plan you have for the patient as a doctor or a nurse, outcome what is it that you seek to attain after attending to your patient (fewer symptoms, no symptoms or full recovery). This strategy helps therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis(Gao, 2020).

My article will see how PICOT helps patients who require therapy to take control of their bodies for the betterment of their health and well-being. Here will show how Problem Intervention Comparison and Outcome. This case will focus on physical therapy for a patient recovering from an accident who has completed his treatment and has been assigned a therapist and I will be his nurse over his recovery period. According to the PICOT directives the patient is to recover and regain his ability to move and work in a normal state.

The intervention, in this case, is will suggest therapeutic measures are he will go through surgery to joint and fix damaged tissues, with the administration of medication this is to help in quick recovery and reduction of pain. During his stay at the hospital. Physical therapy helps in relieving pain, improving movement, prevention of disability, and rehab after a stroke, accident, or injury. In this patient’s case, physical therapy will help us evaluate his condition and develop a care plan that will assist during his therapy (Haselbeck et al., 2021). This helps us measure how well he can move around reach or bend around, walk and climb steps, monitor heartbeat while moving around. We worked with the patient to create a treatment plan this included his personal goals such as feeling better and the ability to function in a normal state. The appropriate treatment was exercise or stretching this is done with the guidance of his therapist, and the nurse, massage, hear, and warm water therapy. Since movement was an issue rehab to use artificial limbs like a walking stick and wheelchair was also a necessity.

Physical therapy should take 30 to 60 minutes this depends on why you are doing the therapy for. This helps the body adapt to the new activities slowly before regaining full-body activity. The estimated amount of time to recover from this therapy section was between eight to ten weeks. This will see us attain full recovery and regained motion strengths and functionality. From this, it’s clear that PICOT helps in assessing and aids in determining the best possible treatment for the patient and the hospital(Jemal, 2018).