This document provides over 30 potential topics for nursing research proposals. The topics cover a wide range of issues including examining the role of nursing in treating various medical conditions, exploring relationships between factors like sleep quality and depression, assessing tools for measuring outcomes like pressure ulcer risk, and studying nursing interventions and practices across clinical settings and patient populations. Many of the proposed topics focus on evaluating nursing care, interventions, practices and their impact on outcomes such as patient quality of life, disease management, and prevention of issues like infections.

1. Discuss the role of nursing in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke
Examine the role of nursing in treating drug dependence
Discuss ways of caring for patients with chronic pain
Examine nursing interventions in the control of infectious diseases
Discuss nursing measures to control high blood pressure
Examine nursing practices with patients with multiple sclerosis
Explore the relationship between sleep quality and depression before
surgery
Assess the use of the Braden scale for pressure ulcer risk
Take a look at the link between medication errors and their
consequences
Examine the use of music therapy and pain relief in children
Explore the factors affecting quality of life in palliative care
Study the effects of nursing care of INR stability time in warfarin
treatment
Discuss the reliability of the COPE index
Examine the effects of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in nurses
Discuss nursing date in COPD patients
Examine the effects of oral hygiene on ventilator-associated pneumonia
Discuss the effects of nurse-led patient education on quality of life in
patients with heart disease
Examine the effects of typical care protocols on the prevention of venous
catheter infections
Look at the decision making process in intensive care patients
Examine current nursing practices to do with parents with children
suffering from cancer
Study current practices in end of life care
Examine the health care providers role in educating patients about the
risk of type 2 diabetes
Nursing Research Proposal Topics

2. Develop a stress management program for nurses
Investigate the contributions made by nursing students to clinical care
Explore the usefulness of competing discharge planning tools
Examine the coping mechanism used by patients dealing with chronic
conditions
Look into the barriers to self-management of HIV
Look at the effects of music therapy and chronic disease
Examine the physical quality life of depressed outpatients
Explore the accuracy of depression screening tools in newly admitted
patients
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