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Doctor of nursing practice whether theyre finishing advanced studies in nursing school or working in a professional clinical setting registered nurses rns begin their research queries using an evidence based practice framework developed from a well constructed picot question. Picot is an approach for developing a nursing question in a format allowing users to approach different nursing research questions with a benefit of evidence based practice it eliminates the potential to assume various inappropriate and including it in the research as it is likely to skew the results to the extent of making them dysfunctional. The picot question format is a consistent formula for developing answerable researchable questions when you write a good one it makes the rest of the process of finding and evaluating evidence much more straightforward p population patient age gender ethnicity individuals with a certain disorder. Using pico to formulate clinical questions pico alternately known as picot is a mnemonic used to describe the four elements of a good clinical question