Those who attend nursing school eventually have to do research projects and papers. The key is to find a topic both relevant and interesting. Often these papers find their way as articles into prominent nursing journals, such as Advances in Nursing Science and Journal of Nursing Care Quality. One journal in particular is very appropriate to finding nursing research topics. This journal, Nursing
. Research, features many notable articles, such as "Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety in Hospitals: New Variable and Longitudinal approaches" and "Stress ad Depression in Students: The Mediating Role of Stress Management Self-efficacy."In order to choose an appropriate nursing research topic, it is first crucial to understand something about nursing. Nursing as an occupation has not been around for more than a century, give or take a few decades. Before this, nursing duties were performed by military or religious personnel. Florence Nightingale's work in the 1860s revealed a need for trained nurses, emphasized by various wars. The first official nurses were military nurses. Formal nursing schools began at this time Great Britain, the United States and Canada though most nurses still did not have sufficient training. It wasn't until World War II that nursing came into its own and required specialized, thorough training. Now, nursing is regulated and requires various medical skills and knowledge.When finding a nursing research topic, it is best to focus on those skills performed by nurses. Perhaps a research project should focus on nursing and patient relations in third world country. Another idea is nursing among tribal persons. Perhaps nursing can focus on older patients. Now, more than ever, attention is being focused on the care that elderly patients receive and the possibility of elderly abuse by those caring for them. Researching this topic may provide some interesting and important incites for the nursing community. More reference links: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/journalissue.asp?Journal_ID=54027&Issue_ID=1281046 http://allnurses.com/research-nursing/
