Master's Project / Thesis - What's Your Topic?

[Christen, ANP]

Hallo all!

I'm just curious as to what everyone is planning for their master's project/thesis? Are you going to do a project or a thesis? What's your topic? How far along are you?

I am planning on looking at hand hygiene rates in a primary care center (which functions as a mini hospital, practically - it has two floors, a lab, radiology, and a pharmacy for goodness sake!) in Savannah. I want to see who (PCT, MD, RN, NP, XRay Tech, etc) washes their hands the most consistantly and how this number compares to a study which was completed at our local Level One Trauma Center. :) My goal is to work towards figuring out why hand hygiene rates are so low, even though we all know we should be doing it.

[rach78]

I think that the study will show that those who are physically active are less stressed at work. Studies have already shown that exercise increases confidence and improves a persons feeling of overall well being. It only makes sense to me that an increase in confidence and "feeling good" would help prevent or at least lessen the stress that nurses feel.

Before returning to nursing school, I was a wellness coordinator for a hospital chain, and a lot of what we did was trying to lessen the stress for the nurses at work. However, so many of nurses were against exercising at all and believed that being on their feet for a 12 hour shift equaled exercising. While those 12 hours are demanding, it does not induce the same heart rate response (up to 60-85% of max heart rate) to achieve the stress reducing benefits of cardio exercise. I just hope my study might help some nurses who find their jobs overly stressful as a way to cope and hopefully help them lead healthier lives, cause we all know what stress can do to the body!

[JBudd, MSN]

I wrote my paper on the problems of English as Second Language nursing students, and the various strategies different schools have used to assist them.

[Christen, ANP]

Very interesting ideas!

What was the result of your paper? Is there any consistency across the board in dealing with English-as-a-second-language students?

[nursebrandie28, BSN, RN]

I decided to do a project instead of a thesis. I am presenting an active learning workshop which covers learning styles, active and passive learning and teaching strategies such as gaming/role playing in the classroom. I am a little behind being that I was supposed to graduate in May and am still waiting on IRB approval to do my presentation.

Good ideas...great thread!!

Brandie

[Taimanov]

nice researches guys... mine is not yet complete but it would be about on vegetarian diet, cardiac diseases, then comparing 2 groups (vegetarian and non vegetarian ) or like measuring their hdl ldl.... and i want my subjects to be 50 yrs old up..

im also thinking about researching vegetarian and non vegetarians health status.. like all the diseases they had for the past 10 years... GOD ^^ im excited....

good luck to all of us