title: Identifying and defining research questions.
abstract: Research is vital to improving nursing practice and patient outcomes, and therefore a key aspect of nursing degree programmes. All student nurses must show they can undertake an independent learning project before they can graduate and become registered nurses. This article outlines processes that can be followed to select a research area and narrow it down to generate a specific research question. Methodologies and models can then be used to compile a list of search terms that can be used to get the research underway.
authors.forename: Raouf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khodabux
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing