Accessing and Selecting the Best Available Evidence: The Second Step in Evidence‐Based Practice

You are a curious and engaged perioperative nurse and you notice a recurring issue in your practice. The first step in evidence-based practice (EBP) according to Sackett et al1 is to define the problem. This step was explained in an earlier editorial2 and, although some problems can be solved without additional steps in the EBP process, often the curious clinician must create a PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome) question to...