I need some ideas please! (piog)

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Oct 30, 2008

I would strongly suggest that you go to the library and do a search of the literature to see what is out there and being researched. Have a librarian help you. If you commit to a subject before doing that and have trouble finding the research, you will be screwed. It is easier to follow the research. You will find something interesting. As you run across articles, also pull the articles quoted as references and look them up as well. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig has all kinds of interventions listed in it under the various nursing diagnoses that list and reference EBN research. Not all of it is nursing research, but it is a place to start. Another place to begin is to look at the references listed at the ends of the chapters of your nursing textbooks. Or, read a recent journal article of a nursing procedure and look at the references at the end that support the author's point of view.

I did a research proposal for my BSN senior project on patient violence against nurses. There was nursing research for it and I was able to get in touch with a nurse who was working on her doctorate thesis on this who kindly sent me some of her supporting literature supporting literature, her assessment tool and some of her research data results, which she already had, helped me in shaping the direction of my own literature search and the direction I wanted to take with my proposed study and testing.

Best of luck to you.

llg, PhD, RN · Oct 30, 2008

I strongly agree with Daytonite on this one. Start by browsing the nursing research literature. See what topics have been well researched and then pick one of those topics that interests you and for which there is easily available literature. Too many students make the mistake of starting by choosing a topic that interests them and then struggle when they can't find the literature they need to complete their assignment.