Research Problems and Design

The spirit of inquiry is synonymous with research. In our day-to-day life, be it at work, in school or our personal life, we encounter countless events that we question why does it have to be this way? Or, why is this occurring? If it genuinely interests us, these questions we ask ourselves become the first step in the evolution of the research process. We identify a problem, formulate a PICO (T) question to research the issue, and then a research design is selected to outline how to conduct the study to answer the question (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2019). The researcher has multiple options to choose for a research design. One must determine if they are trying to understand a phenomenon, measure or test something, or do both (Houser, 2014). Sometimes the study is made up of at least three to four different designs. For example, one could utilize a quantitative retrospective nonexperimental descriptive design. What design would be ideal for the problem you identified in the Unit 2 discussion question? Explain your answer.



Chamberlain College of Nursing (2019). NR 449 Week 3: Research Problems and Designs[Online Lesson] Downers Grove, IL: Adtalem Global Education.



Would your problem identified in the Week 2 discussion question lend itself to a qualitative or quantitative design? What level of evidence (research design) would best address the problem? Explain your answer. (this is the assignment question)



the last assignment (week 2 assignment) u did is a continuation of this week assignment submission

the work you did last week, consider that work and answer the above question.



Houser, J. (2016). Nursing Research: Reading, Using and Creating Evidence: Reading, Using and Creating Evidence (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. (use this book as one of the references)