Master Program Core Course: Nursing Research (NUR 500)

:Course Description

The course is designed to provide the students’ knowledge about the research process in nursing field. It focuses on complex research designs and analysis of multiple variables. Emphasis will be placed on techniques for control of variables, data analysis, and interpretation of results. The interrelationship of theoretical frameworks, design, sample selection, data collection instruments, and data analysis techniques will be analyzed in depth. Content will be discussed in terms of clinical nursing research problems; Students will be required to design a nursing research proposal. An overview of the research process in nursing is presented with an emphasis on developing a theoretically sound research proposal. Content considerations include: 1) nursing research approaches or designs; 2) theory-research-practice interrelationships; 3) elements of the research process and their interdependency and expression in the proposal; and 4) proposal development.