PICOT: HPV One nursing practice that is supported by the evidence in articles from the literature review is that increasing HPV health literacy among students will help to promote HPV vaccination and thus reduce the risk of the spread of HPV infection (Perkins, Chigurupati, Apte, 2016; Lamb, Herweijer, Ploner et al., 2018). By increasing health literacy and the advancement of knowledge and information among the target population (high school students), the target population is more likely to be informed of the risks of not getting vaccinated for HPV, how the vaccinations work, and why the spread of HPV should be a concern to them in the first place (Perkins et al., 2016; Lamb et al., 2018). Possible consequences of failing to adopt the strategy of increasing health literacy regarding the evidence-based practice of HPV vaccination, which is an effective strategy for mitigating the risk of the spread of HPV (Lamb et al., 2018), are that students will fail to realize the significance and importance of addressing this issue and taking it seriously enough to take steps to safeguard and protect themselves. Uninformed students are unlikely to be safe and the more they learn about HPV and the HPV vaccination, the more likely they are to receive it.

I would disseminate information about this evidence-based practice throughout a school by printing off pamphlets, leaflets and fliers that can be posted in a school, on a bulletin board, or displayed in a school nursing office, where students may see it. If students have access to an Intranet, information could also be passed via Intranet email in the school.

Communication could also be achieved by having a presentation for students at the high school so that they are allowed face-to-face...

This type of face-to-face presentation can really be impactful and promote positive outcomes because it supports the spread of health literacy in a direct way that cannot be reproduced in the simple dissemination of literature. Individuals can engage in a two-way flow of communication in which information is presented and questions are answered. This can greatly facilitate the educative effect that health literacy aims to achieve.
Communicating the importance of increasing health literacy about HPV vaccinations could be communicated through the use of nursing associations, nursing blogs, nursing bulletin boards, and nursing publications. The more that nurses themselves engage in continuing education, the more likely it is that they will appreciate the message about how health literacy can be used to help reduce the risk of the spread of HPV among students.

The PICOT question for this paper is: In high school students, will distributing information about HPV vaccine, decrease the prevalence of teen HPV infections?

The PICOT question’s significance for to the nursing practice can be found in the fact that HPV infections are a health care concern that nurses must address, and distributing information about the HPV vaccine is a type of health literacy that nurses can engage in to help address the issue and reduce the rate of infection. As the literature shows, the HPV vaccine is effective in helping to reduce the risk of infection (Lamb et al., 2018), and the use of health literacy is effective in spreading knowledge and…