What is it you want to address? Practice issues typically center around broad objectives that have been identified nationally as the Quadruple Aim priorities in healthcare (Berwick, Nolan & Whittington 2008; Bodenheimer & Sinsky, 2014). These aims encompass priority healthcare issues and include the following topic areas:
In 2019, the focus of HFH Nursing is family-centered research. Family is part of each patient's environment and critical to the health and well-being of patients before and after discharge. Family can be defined as those whom the patient identifies as their family whether or not these persons are biologic relatives or living in the same household. We hope that researchers will incorporate family into their patient-centered research projects. They are critical to the health of all patients.
Begin with stating your research question clearly. The research question identifies study variables and asks how the variables might be related.