Research Proposal Outline for Nursing Students

Running head: RESEARCH IN NURSING
Research in nursing
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author’s note

1RESEARCH IN NURSING
Research proposal outline
Aim: This section will provide clear details regarding the aim of the research proposal. This will
be based on the PICO question and cover all the sections of the PICO framework. For example,
in case of the research topic ‘impact of extended nursing shift hours or long work hours
(overtime) on quality of patient care in emergency departments in Australia', the aim will to
investigate about the consequences of extended nursing work hours on quality of care for
emergency nurses workings in Australian clinical setting and recommends solutions to address
the issue associated with long working hours.
Background: The background section will focus on giving background information related to
the research topic to understand the rationale for research. This section will identify gaps in
existing research work and justify the reason behind conducting the research on a particular
topic. After review of the background information, the proposal will also provide direction
regarding how current research would help to fill research gap and promote practice
improvement (Blaikie & Priest, 2019). In case of the above topic, background information will
focus on the statistics related to extended work hours for nurse, association between nursing
work hours and negative patient outcome. Gaps in past work will also justify the research design
for the current research.
Experimental design and methods:
This section will mainly define the research design and research paradigm based on
which the research will be done. The selection of research design is first done based on the broad
category of qualitative and quantitative research. After selection of any of this research
methodology, the focus will be to identify specific qualitative or quantitative research