Basic steps in planning nursing research : from question to proposal / Pamela J. Brink and Marilynn J. Wood

Includes index.

How to Write a Researchable Question -- Research Topics -- What Is a Researchable Question? -- Asking Research Questions -- Examining Components of a Research Question -- Levels of Questions -- Rewriting Your Question -- Be Interested in Your Idea -- From Question to Problem -- Finding the Level of Knowledge about a Topic -- How to Search the Literature on Your Topic -- Level of Theory and Level of Question -- Developing the Research Problem from the Literature Review -- Find Out What You Know -- Ask Questions about the Theory -- Look Up Interrelated Ideas -- Convert Your Topic Outline to a Sentence Outline -- Relate the Theory to the Question -- Beginning with an Observation -- Where do You Start Your Literature Search? -- The Full and Final Research Problem -- Elements of a Research Problem -- Review of the Literature -- The Rationale for Developing the Question -- The Theoretical or Conceptual Framework -- The Psychology of Argument -- Strongest Argument Last -- Substantiate What You Say -- Critical Review of the Literature -- Content of a Critique -- What to Critique -- How to Do a Critique -- Guidelines for Critique of Published Research -- Where Does the Critique Belong? -- Stating the Purpose of the Study -- The Purpose Written as a Declarative Statement -- The Purpose Written as a Question -- The Purpose Written as a Hypothesis -- Examining the Components of a Hypothesis -- The Significance of the Statement of Purpose -- Stating the Purpose of the Study: A Summary -- Defining Your Terms -- Types of Variables.

This book is written as an introduction to the reearch process and deals solely with the beginning phase of research -- the research plan.