· Identify the role of research in nursing.
· Identify research concepts, purposes, and characteristics of scientific research.
· Search for nursing problem statement.
· List sources of nursing research problems.
· Formulate researchable problems in nursing.
· Compose hypotheses for a research problem.
· List sources of nursing research problems.
· Discuss initial & secondary sources of review of literature.
· Describe types of variables used in nursing research.
· Discuss the types of research design.
· Define the population, sampling & sample.
· Discuss types of sampling techniques (probability & non probability sample).
· Identify the various methods used in data collection.
· Explain the types of statistical procedures (descriptive & inferential tests).
· Analyze, represent, & interpret the results.
· Criticize research studies in nursing with understanding and comprehension.