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Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Approaches to Nursing Research
3. Research Process
4. Ethical Consideration in Nursing Research
5. Review of Literature
6. Hypothesis and Estimation
7. Research instruments
8. Data Collection and Analysis
9. Statistics for Nurses
10. Reporting and Communicating Nursing Research
11. Writing Nursing Research Proposals
12. Nursing Research Terminology
13. References

WRITING RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Research ProposalThe writing of a research proposal is an important aspect of research process. A research proposal is a detailed plan of the research to be conducted. A written research proposal follows a general format of a journal article with the following nine general steps:

1. Problem
2. Definitions, assumptions, limitations or delimitations
3. Review of related literature
4. Hypothesis
5. Methods
6. Time schedule
7. Expected results
8. References
9. Appendix