EBP week 2 DISCUSSION: STARTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS

WEEK 2 DISCUSSION: STARTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS

You are a pediatric nurse working with a facility to increase awareness and understanding concerning childhood immunizations. You notice there is a lack of understanding from parents about the benefit of these immunizations, and you begin to consider how you might research ways to improve immunization rates. You develop a research problem statement and begin to examine the research purpose for possible solutions.

As outlined in the scenario, a research problem statement identifies an area of need in which there is a gap in knowledge or practice, and interest by a nurse researcher. Either from a hypothetical or real-world experience, nursing research problem statements help to focus the research purpose and guide the study of the problem.

*****For this Discussion, you will develop YOUR OWN research problem statement on a TOPIC OF INTEREST to you.(PLS NOT on childhood immunization) Reflect on your personal and academic experiences to consider which research problem you might address.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

TO PREPARE:

-Review the Learning Resources regarding research problem statements and consider how you might formulate a research problem statement.

-Reflect on your personal, professional, and academic experiences to identify a topic of interest to focus on for developing a research problem statement

-Consider what study variables and hypothesis would support your research problem statement.

-Consider any ethical considerations that you should keep in mind in relation to your research problem statement.

-Consider how the selected research problem might contribute to positive nurse practice changes.

*The assignment below*

***Post a proposed research problem statement, including your study variables and hypothesis to make your problem statement clear.

***Explain any ethical considerations you should keep in mind in relation to your research problem statement.***

***Explain how addressing this research problem may bring about positive nursing practice change. Be specific and provide examples.***

Below is the instructor/Professor note Pls use as guidance. Thank you

DR. Jody Minnick

This weeks discussion should be on a topic of YOUR CHOICE 🙂 It should be original and not from another published article. For example,

For my DNP project (Quality Improvement “QI”), I looked at the incidence of hyperthermia (fever) in injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and mortality. My variables were:

Fever

Use of a ventilator

Antibiotic use or non-use

IVF

Tylenol or antipyretics

Death at 30 days, 90 days

etc.

My hypothesis was that the fever was an indicator of SIRS/Sepsis and I wanted to see what the incidence of fever and treatment versus fever and no treatment attributed to mortality. The main purpose was to identify the need and develop a CPG on fever management in flight for the military. Ethical considerations were the fact if they were civilian, active duty or insurgent. The data was de-identified to protect full identity.

So make sure when developing your post you use original thought and not just an article with everything already broken down for you 🙂 Make sure to have adequate resources and 3 separate days of activity for full points.

Learning resources attached