Question

My PICOT is : Will the turnover rate reduce and patient satisfaction on the quality of service offered increase within the next 6 months, if the public health nurses are aware of the factors that positively and negatively influence their retention?

Based on the question how will I evaluate my EBP project, which independent and dependent variables do I need to collect? Why?

Answer 1

The evidence based project would be aimed to provide the knowledge to the nurses on the positive and negative influence causes in the healthcare due to retention .in the study we will observe whether the reduction in turn over of nurses helps to increase patient satisfaction.in this context we will be seeing the effect of turnover on patient satisfaction so the independent variable is turn over of nurses and dependent variable is increased patient satisfaction because we are manipulating the nurses turnover to identify the dependency on patient satisfaction.independent variable is the variable on which we manipulate during the course of the project to find changes on the dependent variable so to conclude the independent variable is nurses turn over and dependent variable is patient satisfaction.